# 1963 in Brazil

Events in the year 1963 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: João Goulart
* Prime Minister: Hermes Lima (until 23 January)
* Vice President: vacant

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Luis Cavalcante
* Amazonas:
** Gilberto Mestrinho (until 25 March)
** Plínio Ramos Coelho (from 25 March)
* Bahia:
** Juracy Magalhães (until 7 April)
** Lomanto Junior (from 7 April)
* Ceará:
** Parsifal Barroso (until 25 March)
** Virgílio Távora (from 25 March)
* Espírito Santo:
** Asdrúbal Martins Soares (until 31 January)
** Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar (from 31 January)
* Goiás: Mauro Borges
* Guanabara: Carlos Lacerda
* Maranhão: Newton de Barros Belo
* Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
* Minas Gerais: José de Magalhães Pinto
* Pará: Aurélio do Carmo
* Paraíba: Pedro Gondim
* Paraná: Nei Braga
* Pernambuco:
** Cid Sampaio (until 31 January)
** Miguel Arraes (from 31 January)
* Piauí:
** Tibério Nunes (until 25 March)
** Petrônio Portella (from 25 March)
* Rio de Janeiro:
** José Janotti (until 18 January)
** Luís Miguel Pinaud (18 January-31 January)
** Badger da Silveira (from 31 January)
* Rio Grande do Norte: Aluízio Alves
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Leonel Brizola (until 25 March)
** Ildo Meneghetti (from 25 March)
* Santa Catarina: Celso Ramos
* São Paulo:
** Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto (until 31 January)
** Ademar de Barros (from 31 January)
* Sergipe:
** Dionísio Machado (until 30 January)
** Horácio Dantas de Goes (30 January-31 January)
** João de Seixas Dória (from 31 January)

### Vice governors

* Alagoas: Teotônio Brandão Vilela
* Bahia: Orlando Moscoso
* Ceará:
** Wilson Gonçalves (until 31 January)
** Joaquim de Figueiredo Correia (from 25 March)
* Espírito Santo: Rubens Rangel (from 31 January)
* Goiás:
** Antônio Rezende Monteiro (until 31 January)
** Vacant thereafter (from 31 January)
* Maranhão: Alfredo Salim Duailibe
* Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
* Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
* Pará: Newton Burlamaqui de Miranda
* Paraíba: André Avelino de Paiva Gadelha
* Pernambuco: Paulo Pessoa Guerra
* Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
* Rio de Janeiro: João Batista da Costa (from 31 January)
* Rio Grande do Norte: Teodorico Bezerra (from 19 January)
* Santa Catarina: Armindo Marcílio Doutel de Andrade
* São Paulo:
** Porfírio da Paz (until 31 January)
** Laudo Natel (from 31 January)
* Sergipe: Celso Carvalho (from 31 January)

## Events
### January

* January 6: A plebiscite chooses the presidential system over a parliamentary one. As a result, the office of the Prime Minister is abolished.
* January 8: The flag of Minas Gerais is instituted.

### March

* March 12: The first Korean immigrants arrive in Brazil.

### April

* April 20-May 5: The 1963 Pan American Games are held in São Paulo.

### May

* May 23: The Brazilian national team wins its second World Men's Basketball Championship by beating the Soviet Union by 90 to 79 points, in Rio de Janeiro.

### July

* July 20: Ieda Maria Vargas becomes the first Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, which is held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America.

### October

* October 7: The Ipatinga massacre takes place, after military police shot at Usiminas employees.

### November

* November 16: Santos FC becomes the first Brazilian club to win a second Intercontinental Cup (football).

### December

* December 4: Senator Arnon de Melo, who was trying to shoot Senator Silvestre Péricles, shot and killed alternate Senator José Kairala.

## Births
### January

* January 5 – Luís Carlos Winck, footballer and coach
* January 12 – Nando Reis, musician and producer

### March

* March 11 – Marcos Pontes, astronaut and politician

### October

* October 31 – Dunga, footballer and coach

### November

* November 2 – Valdemiro Santiago, evangelical pastor

## Deaths

* November 4 – Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo, poet and writer (b. 1872)