1968 in Brazil
| 1968 in Brazil |
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| Timeline of Brazilian history |
| Brazilian military government |
| Year of Constitution: 1967 |
Events of the year 1968 in Brazil
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva
- Vice-President: Pedro Aleixo
Governors
- Acre:
- 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
- Alagoas:
- Amazonas:
- Bahia:
- Ceará:
- Espírito Santo:
- Goiás:
- Mato Grosso:
- Minas Gerais:
- Pará:
- Paraíba:
- Paraná:
- Pernambuco:
- Piaui:
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
Events
March
- 28 March – Student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot dead by a police officer in a protest at the restaurant Calabouço, in Rio de Janeiro.[1]
May
- 26 May – Doctor Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini performs 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 – March of the One Hundred Thousand held in Rio de Janeiro against the military dictatorship.[2]
November
- 2 November – Queen Elizabeth II visits Brazil.[3]
December
- 13 December – Institucional Act Number 5 (AI-5) proclaimed, giving the president the powers to intervene on local governments, suspend the Congress, ban political meetings, and censor the press, music and film.[4]
Births
- 20 July – Carlos Saldanha, director
- 18 November – Luizianne Lins, politician
Deaths
- 4 April – Assis Chateaubriand, entrepreneur (b. 1892).
- 13 October – Manuel Bandeira, poet (b. 1886).
References
- ^ "Jornal do Brasil - Pesquisa de arquivos de notícias Google". news.google.com. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
- ^ Alves, Maria Helena Moreira (1988-07-01). State and Opposition in Military Brazil. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292776173.
- ^ Pages, Digital. "Folha de S.Paulo - Edição de 02/11/1968". acervo.folha.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
- ^ Dunn, Christopher (2016-10-13). Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469628523.
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