1968 in Brazil

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: 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
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)
References
See also
1968 in Brazilian football
1968 in Brazilian television
1960s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
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