# 1969 in Brazil

Events in the year 1969 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President:
** Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (until 31 August)
** Pedro Aleixo (from 31 August to 30 October, de jure)
** Admiral Augusto Rademaker, General Aurélio de Lira Tavares and General Márcio Melo (from 31 August to 30 October, de facto)
** General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (starting 30 October)
* Vice President:
** Pedro Aleixo (until 31 August)
** Vacant (from 31 August to October)
** General Augusto Rademaker (from October 30)

### 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 (until 26 July)
** Vacant thereafter (from 26 July)
* 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
### February

* February 26: President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-7, which suspends elections for governors and mayors.

### March

* March 20: The Brazilian Company of Posts and Telegraphs (ECT) is founded; a public company that replaces the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT).

### April

* 16 April: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested for the second time.

### May

* Unknown Date: Castor de Andrade is released in the beginning of the month, after being detained on Ilha das Flores. This is the last time he's detained by the military regime.

### August

* 16 August: Embraer is founded as an aerospace technology company to manufacture both civil and military aircraft.
* 31 August: A military junta rules the country following the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva. The junta is made up of ministers Aurélio de Lira Tavares from the Army, Augusto Rademaker from the Navy, and Márcio de Sousa e Melo from the Air Force.

### September

* September 1: The newscast Jornal Nacional on Rede Globo de Televisão premieres.
* September 4: The US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, is kidnapped by two armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 and the ALN, in Rio de Janeiro.
* September 7: US Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick is freed by armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 in Rio de Janeiro.
* September 18: In Rio de Janeiro, the Provisional Governing Board signs a decree-law, establishing the new National Security Law.

### October

* October 15: The three military ministers sign the Complementary Acts in Rio de Janeiro, which order the reopening of the National Congress of Brazil.
* October 17: The military junta promulgates Constitutional Amendment n°1, known as the 1969 Constitution.
* October 25: ARENA candidate Emílio Garrastazu Médici is elected President of Brazil by a joint session of Congress, specially reopened by AI-16.
* October 30: Emílio Garrastazu Médici takes office as the 28th president of Brazil.

### November

* November 4: Ação Libertadora Nacional leader Carlos Marighella is shot to death by DOPS agents in São Paulo.
* November 19: Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium.

## Births
### January

* 16 January: Daniela Escobar, actress and television presenter

### April

* 30 April: Paulo Jr., bassist

### June

* 30 June: Dira Paes, actress

### July

* 25 July: David Brazil, promoter and actor

### September

* 5 September: Leonardo, footballer
* 18 September: Gralak, footballer
* 26 September: Dan Stulbach, actor, television presenter, director and artistic director

### November

* 11 November: Bismarck Barreto Faria, footballer

### December

* 5 December: Jean Elias, footballer

## Deaths
### March

* 12 March: Adhemar de Barros, politician

### July

* 10 July: João de Souza Mendes, chess master

### September

* 6 September: Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player

### November

* 4 November: Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary and writer
* 7 November: Cyro de Freitas Valle, lawyer

### December

* 17 December: Artur da Costa e Silva, former president, heart attack