# 1968 in Brazil

Events of the year 1968 in Brazil

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva
* Vice-President: Pedro Aleixo

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
* Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
* Bahia: Luís Viana Filho
* Ceará: Plácido Castelo
* Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
* Goiás: Otávio Lage
* Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima
* Maranhão: José Sarney
* Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
* Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
* Pará: Alacid Nunes
* Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
* Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
* Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
* Piauí: Helvídio Nunes
* Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
* Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
* Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
* Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
* São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
* Sergipe: Lourival Baptista

### Vice governors

* Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
* Amazonas: Rui Arajuo
* Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
* Ceará: Humberto Ellery
* Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
* Goiás: Osires Teixeira
* Maranhão: Antonio Jorge Dino
* Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
* Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
* Pará: João Renato Franco
* Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias
* Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
* Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
* Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
* Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
* Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
* Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
* São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
* Sergipe: Vacant

## Events
### March

* 28 March: A 16 year-old student named Edson Luís de Lima Souto, is killed after being shot in the chest by a police officer. This was during a protest between students and the Military Police at the Calabouço restaurant, in the UNE building, in Rio de Janeiro.

### April

* 5 April: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva, signs an act, prohibiting the functioning of the leftist political movement, known as Frente Ampla.
* 20 April: A bomb attack destroys the headquarters entrance of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in São Paulo.

### May

* 15 May: A bomb explodes at the door of the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
* 26 May: Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini and his team perform the first heart transplant in Latin America.
* 28 May: A 23rd star representing the state of Acre, established six years before, is added to the flag of Brazil.

### June

* 26 June: The Passeata dos Cem Mil (March of the One Hundred Thousand), a demonstration organized by the student movement against the military regime, takes place in the center of Rio de Janeiro.

### July

* 5 July: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva bans street demonstrations across the country.
* 13 July: Martha Vasconcellos becomes the second Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, in the pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

### November

* 1-11 November: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom arrives in Brazil for an eleven-day visit.
* 7 November: The new headquarters of the São Paulo Museum of Art on Avenida Paulista is inaugurated with the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

### December

* 13 December: President Costa e Silva issues Institucional Act Number 5, giving the President powers to intervene on local governments, suspend Congress, ban political meetings, as well as censor the press, music and film.
* 16 December: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested, after Secretary of Public Security of Guanabara, General Luís de França Oliveira, starts one of the biggest attacks against crime.
* 30 December: The Secretariat of the National Defense Council publishes a list of impeached federal deputies.

## Births
### January

* 3 January: Matheus Nachtergaele, actor and director
* 7 January: Cazé Peçanha, television host
* 12 January: Mauro Silva, former footballer

### July

* 20 July: Carlos Saldanha, director

### November

* 18 November: Luizianne Lins, politician

### December

* 31 December: Luciano Szafir, actor

## Deaths
### April

* 4 April: Assis Chateaubriand, entrepreneur (b. 1892)

### October

* 13 October: Manuel Bandeira, poet (b. 1886)