1969 in Brazil

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: Jose 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 created by the Brazilian government as a national champion for domestic aerospace technology.
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
References
See also
1969 in Brazilian football
1969 in Brazilian television
1960s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil