1951 in Brazil

1951 in Brazil
Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President:
Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (until 30 January)
Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
Vice President:
Nereu Ramos (until 30 January)
Café Filho (from 31 January)
Governors
Alagoas:
Silvestre Pericles (until 31 January)
Arnon de Mello (from 31 January)
Amazonas:
Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (until 31 January)
Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January)
Bahia:
Otávio Mangabeira (until 31 January)
Régis Pacheco (from 31 January)
Ceará:
Faustino de Albuquerque (until 31 January)
Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
Espírito Santo:
Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (until 31 January)
Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January)
Goiás:
Hosanah Guimarães (until 31 January)
Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January)
Maranhão:
Sebastião Archer (until 31 January)
Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira (from 31 January)
Mato Grosso:
Jari Gomes (until 31 January)
Fernando Corrêa da Costa (from 31 January)
Minas Gerais:
Milton Soares Campos (until 31 January)
Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
Pará:
Alberto Engelhard (until 25 January: )
Waldir Bouhid (25 January-27 January)
Arnaldo Lobo (27 January-9 February)
Abel Nunes de Figueiredo (9 February-20 February)
Zacarias de Assumpção (from 20 February)
Paraíba:
Osvaldo Trigueiro (until 31 January)
José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
Paraná:
Moisés Lupion (until 31 January)
Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto (from 31 January)
Pernambuco:
Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (until 31 January)
Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January)
Piauí:
José da Rocha Furtado (until 31 January)
Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
Rio de Janeiro:
Macedo Soares (until 31 January)
Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
José Augusto Varela (until 31 January)
Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado (31 January-16 July)
Silvio Piza Pedrosa (from 16 July)
Rio Grande do Sul:
Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January)
Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
Santa Catarina:
Aderbal Ramos da Silva (until 31 January)
Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January)
São Paulo:
Ademar de Barros (until 31 January)
Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January)
Sergipe:
Jose Rollemberg (until 31 January)
João Dantas Martins dos Reis (31 January-17 February)
Edélzio Vieira de Melo (17 February-12 March)
Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez (from 12 March)
Vice governors
Alagoas:
Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (until 31 January)
Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January)
Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
Espírito Santo:
José Rodrigues Sette (until 31 January)
Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January)
Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January)
Maranhão:
Saturnino Bello (until 31 January)
Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January)
Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January)
Minas Gerais:
José Ribeiro Pena (until 31 January)
Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January)
Paraíba:
José Targino Pereira da Costa (until 31 January)
João Fernandes de Lima (from 31 January)
Piauí:
Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (until 31 January)
Tertuliano Milton Brandão (from 31 January)
Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda (from 31 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
Tomaz Salustino (until 31 January)
Sylvio Pedroza (31 January-16 July)
Vacant (from 16 July)
São Paulo:
Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (until 31 January)
Erlindo Salzano (from 31 January)
Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo (from 31 January)
Events
date unknown
The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.
The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.
January
18 January: Getúlio Vargas is proclaimed president-elect by the Superior Electoral Court.
13 January: Getúlio Vargas assumes his second term as the 17th President of Brazil, this time elected by direct vote.
March
Unknown Date: Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.
June
12 June: Última Hora, a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.
July
3 July: President Getúlio Vargas signs the Afonso Arinos Law, which prohibits racial discrimination in Brazil.
12 July: A Linhas Aéreas Paulistas plane collides with a tree located 3 kilometers from the runway at the Aracaju airport, killing 32 passengers and crew.
Arts and culture
Books
Ștefan Baciu - Analiza cuvântului dor
Films
Agüenta Firme, Isidoro, directed by Luiz de Barros.
Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
Amazon Symphony, directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
Quando a Noite Acaba, starring Tônia Carrero.
O Saci, directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.
Births
January
2 January:
Lula Ferreira, professional basketball coach
Waldir Peres, footballer (died 2017)
April
9 April: Sérgio Rezende, filmmaker
29 April: Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician
July
12 July: Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician
August
13 August: Beto Guedes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
14 August: Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic
October
20 October: José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politician
Deaths
August
2 August: Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882)
November
13 November: Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912)
References
See also
1951 in Brazilian football
List of Brazilian films of 1951
1950s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
1951 in South America