1938 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President

Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Alagoas: Osman Laurel
  • Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia Bahia: Antônio Fernandes Dantas then 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: Argemiro de Figueiredo Paraná: Manuel Ribas
• Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
  • • Piauí: Leônidas Melo Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão Rio Grande do Sul:
      • till 19 January: Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho 19 January-4 March: Joaquim Maurício Cardoso
  • from 4 March: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
• Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
• São Paulo:
  • till 25 April: José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto
    • • 25 April-27 April: Francisco José da Silva Júnior from 27 April: Ademar de Barros
• Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

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

Events

• 2 January - The governmental radio program Hora do Brasil begins to be broadcast throughout the country.^[1]
• 3 January - The presidential election is not held due to Getúlio Vargas' coup d'état.
• 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.
• 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

January

• 16 January: Jô Soares, comedian and talk show host (died 2022)
• 27 January: Raul Gil, television presenter and singer

April

• 5 April: Marly Marley, actress and vedette (died 2014)

June

• 6 June: Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (died 2022)

July

• 23 July: Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer^[4]
• 25 July: Sérgio Ferro, painter

August

• 18 August: Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)

November

• 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)

See also

• 1938 in Brazilian football
• List of Brazilian films of 1938

Notes and References

1. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fdm/1938/01/04/2/ A "Hora do Brasil" passou a ser transmittida às 20 horas
2. Web site: Michel Bernanos. March 31, 2012. Pages Françaises de Science-Fiction. fr.
3. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000). p 21
4. http://menalton.com.br/xml/pdfs/academicos/academico_01_abralic_zaga.pdf Menalton Braff, leitor de Cecília Meireles
5. Allmusic
6. Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. .