2003 in Brazil

2003 in Brazil
Events in the year 2003 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Vice President: José Alencar Gomes da Silva
Governors
Acre: Jorge Viana
Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
Amapa: Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
Bahia:
Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
Ceará:
Beni Veras (until 1 January)
Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
Goiás: Marconi Perillo
Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
Minas Gerais:
Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
Pará:
Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
Paraná:
Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos
Piauí:
Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro:
Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
Santa Catarina:
Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe:
Albano Franco (until 1 January)
João Filho (from 1 January)
Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)
Vice governors
Acre:
Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Alagoas:
Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
Amapá:
Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
Amazonas:
Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho
Maranhão: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso: Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul:
Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
Minas Gerais:
Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
Pará:
Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
Paraná:
Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
Piauí:
Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
Vacant (until 1 January)
Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
Rondônia:
Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
Roraima:
Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
São Paulo:
Vacant (until 1 January)
Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
Sergipe:
Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
Tocantins:
João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)
Events
January
January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.
January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.
June
June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil.<ref>[http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2003/06/21/15/ ''AM registra terremoto 'imperceptível] (primeira página do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de junho de 2003).</ref>
AugustAugust 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.
September
September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
October
October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program.
Births
June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player
Deaths
January
January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)
March
March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)
April
April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)
May
May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)
JuneJune 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)
JulyJuly 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)
August
August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
August 19''': Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)
References
See also
2003 in Brazilian football
2003 in Brazilian television
List of Brazilian films of 2003
2000s in Brazil
Years of the 21st century in Brazil
Brazil
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