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(Top) 1 Incumbents 1.1 Federal government 1.2 Governors 1.3 Vice governors 2 Events 2.1 May 3 Arts and culture 3.1 Films 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

1940 in Brazil

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1940inBrazil
Years 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
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Vargas Era
Year of Constitution: 1937

Events in the year 1940 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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Federal government

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President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

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Alagoas:
- Osman Laurel (until 31 October)
- José Maria Correia das Neves (from 31 October)
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Landulfo Alves
Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Maranhão:
Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
Paraíba:
- till 29 July: Argemiro de Figueiredo
- 29 July-16 August: Antônio Galdino Guedes
- starting 16 August: Rui Carneiro
Paraná: Manuel Ribas
Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
Piauí: Leônidas Melo
Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

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Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

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27 April - The Estádio do Pacaembu is inaugurated, at a ceremony attended by President Getúlio Vargas.

May

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1 May: President Getúlio Vargas signs a decree, establishing the country's minimum wage.^[1]
12 May - The Interlagos Circuit is inaugurated in São Paulo.
5 June - President Vargas approves broad military collaboration between Brazil and the United States.

date unknown - The minority Baenan language becomes extinct.^[2]

Arts and culture

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Films

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Argila, directed by Humberto Mauro

Births

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22 February - Aracy Balabanian, actress (died 2023)
29 March - Astrud Gilberto, singer-songwriter (died 2023)^[3]
15 May - Oscar Castro-Neves, guitarist, arranger, and composer (died 2013)^[4]
19 May - Carlos Diegues, film director
23 June - Sérgio Reis, singer and actor
21 July - Marco Maciel, politician (died 2021)
23 September - Michel Temer, politician
23 October - Pelé, footballer (died 2022)^[5]
16 December - Adelaide Neri, teacher and politician.^[6]

Deaths

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29 January - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, born second-in-line to the Imperial throne of Brazil (born 1875)
6 October - Adolfo Lutz, physician and epidemiologist (born 1855)
8 November - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (born 1905; air crash)
date unknown - Manuel F. Araujo, actor (born 1880)

References

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^ "Assignado o decreto que institue o salario minimo no paiz" (primeira página do único caderno), Folha da Noite (2 de maio de 1940).^{[failed verification]}

^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 52: 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.

^ Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83

^ Morre Oscar Castro Neves (in Portuguese)

^ Pelé; Duarte, Orlando; Bellos, Alex (2006). Pelé : the autobiography. London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7432-7582-8. Retrieved 2 October 2010. Shortly before I came along, there was another arrival in Três Corações: electricity. In order to celebrate this great improvement to our daily lives, Dondinho named me Edson, a tribute to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb. In fact, on my birth certificate I am actually called Edison with an 'i', a mistake that persists to this day. I'm Edson with no 'i', but to my eternal annoyance quite often the 'i' appears on official or personal documents and time after time I have to explain why. As if that wasn't confusing enough, they got the date wrong on my birth certificate as well – it says 21 October. I'm not sure how this came about; probably because in Brazil we're not so fussy about accuracy. This is another mistake that carries on to this day. When I took out my first passport, the date was put in as 21 October and each time I have renewed it the date has stayed the same.

^ Mello, Bruna (24 May 2018). "Mãe de prefeita, a ex-deputada Adelaide Neri morre aos 77 anos" [Mother of mayor, former deputy Adelaide Neri dies at 77]. A Gazeta do Acre [pt] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 September 2022.