Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.
Incumbents
editFederal government
editGovernors
edit- Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro
- Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo
- 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: Magalhães Barata
- Paraíba: Rui Carneiro
- Paraná: Manuel Ribas
- Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
- Piauí: Leônidas Melo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas
- Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles
- Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
- São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa
- Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes
Vice governors
edit- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
- São Paulo: no vice governor
Events
edit- 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
- 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
- September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.[1]
- 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
- date unknown
- The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
- Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.
Arts and culture
editBooks
editFilms
edit- Corações Sem Piloto
- Berlim na Batucada
- É Proibido Sonhar
- O Brasileiro João de Souza
Music
edit- Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1
Births
edit- 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist[2]
- 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
- 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)[3]
- 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021)
- 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
- 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator[4]
- 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)[5]
Deaths
edit- 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)
References
edit- ^ Command Magazine, issue 51, page 34
- ^ Hudson, Berkley (2009). Sterling, Christopher H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. pp. 1060–67. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4.
- ^ John Fordham (21 March 2016). "Naná Vasconcelos obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
- ^ "Leo". Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ^ "Chico Mendes". Moral Heroes. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
See also
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