1939 in Brazil

Events in the year 1939 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

Alagoas: Osman Laurel
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Landulfo Alves
Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Maranhão:
Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
Paraná: Manuel Ribas
Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
Piauí: Leônidas Melo
Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

27 June – The municipality of Canoas obtains city status.
30 November – Serra dos Órgãos National Park is created
5 December – The Imperial Mausoleum is officially inaugurated at the Cathedral of Petrópolis.[1]

Arts and culture

Films

El Grito de la juventud (Argentine film directed by Brazilian director Raul Roulien)

Music

Ary Barroso - "Aquarela do Brasil"

Births

2 February - Maximira Figueiredo, actress (died 2018)
8 February - Jonas Bloch, actor
14 March - Glauber Rocha, film director, actor and writer (died 1981).[2]
30 April - Axel Schmidt-Preben, Olympic sailor[3] (died 2018 )
13 June - Antônio Pitanga, actor
16 October - Suely Franco, actress and entertainer

Deaths

19 April - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (born 1887).[4]
16 October - Malvina Tavares, anarchist, poet, and educator (born 1866)
25 November - Odette Vidal de Oliveira, candidate for beatification (born 1930).[5]

References

Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, p x
"GLAUBER ROCHA IS DEAD AT 42; INNOVATIVE BRAZILIAN DIRECTOR (Published 1981)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-08-26.
"Olympics". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 By Daryle Williams, pg 263
"Beatification process of Brazilian girl begins", (AP), KHOU, Houston, Texas Archived March 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

See also

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Years in Brazil (1822–present)
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1939 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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