1938 in Brazil
| 1938 in Brazil |
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| Vargas Era |
| Year of Constitution: 1937 |
Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas:
- Amazonas:
- Bahia:
- Ceará:
- Espírito Santo:
- Goiás:
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso:
- Minas Gerais:
- Pará:
- Paraíba:
- Paraná:
- Pernambuco:
- Piauí:
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
Events
- May – The Brazilian integralist movement attempt a coup d'état, supported by the Axis powers. The failure of the "Pajama Putsch" leads to the dissolution of the AIB.[1]
- 28 July – Folk hero Lampião and his band are ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angicos farm, in the state of Sergipe.
- date unknown
- Michel Bernanos visits Brazil for the first time.[2]
- Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.[3]
Arts and culture
Films
- Alma e Corpo de uma Raça
- Aruanã
- Maridinho de Luxo
- Tererê Não Resolve
Births
- 27 January – Raul Gil, television presenter and singer
- 5 April – Marly Marley, actress and vedette (died 2014)
- 18 August – Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)
- 6 June – Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
- 23 July – Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer[4]
- 25 July – Sérgio Ferro, painter
- 5 November – Enéas Carneiro, politician (died 2007)
- 25 November – Luiz Henrique Rosa, musician and soccer player (died 1985)[5]
Deaths
- 28 July
- Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)[6]
- Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)
References
- ^ R.S. Rose (2000), One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930–1954, Westport: Greenwood, p. 86.
- ^ "Michel Bernanos". Pages Françaises de Science-Fiction (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2012.
- ^ Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000). p 21
- ^ Menalton Braff, leitor de Cecília Meireles
- ^ Allmusic
- ^ Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
See also
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