1963 in Brazil

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)
See also
1963 in Brazilian football
1963 in Brazilian television
References
1960s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
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