1974 in Brazil explained
Events in the year 1974 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
Vice governors
- Acre: Alberto Barbosa da Costa Alagoas: José de Medeiros Tavares Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal Bahia: Menandro Minahim Ceará: Francisco Humberto Bezerra
- Espírito Santo: Henrique Pretti Goiás: Ursulino Tavares Leão Maranhão: Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira Mato Grosso: José Monteiro de Figueiredo Minas Gerais: Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado Pará: Newton Burlamaqui Barreira Paraíba: Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior Pernambuco: José Antônio Barreto Guimarães Piauí: Sebastião Rocha Leal Rio de Janeiro: Teotônio Araújo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Tertius Rebelo Rio Grande do Sul: Edmar Fetter Santa Catarina: Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana São Paulo: Antonio José Rodrigues Filho Sergipe: Adalberto Moura
Establishments
Events
January
General Ernesto Geisel is elected President of Brazil by the electoral college in an indirect presidential election. Geisel obtains 400 votes against 76 given to the opposition candidate, Ulysses Guimarães.[1]
February
A fire at the Joelma Building in São Paulo kills 177 people and injures 293; 11 die later of their injuries.[2]
March
President Emílio Garrastazu Médici officially opens up the Rio-Niterói Bridge, located in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro.[3]
General Ernesto Geisel replaces General Emílio Garrastazu Médici and becomes the 29th President of Brazil. [4]
May
Presidents Ernesto Geisel of Brazil and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay create Itaipu Binacional to manage the construction of the power plant.[6]
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano is granted political asylum by President Ernesto Geisel in Brazil. Caetano fled after Portugal's Carnation Revolution, which ended 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.[7]
July
President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that determines the union of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro.[8]
A collision between a bus carrying 90 passengers and a truck kills 69 people and injures 11 on the Belém-Brasília highway.[9] [10]
Births
January
March
April
- 12 April: Sylvinho, footballer and manager
May
July
December
Deaths
January
July
See also
Notes and References
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/01/16/2/ Geisel eleito, por 400 votos a 76
- Book: Fire Journal. 1974. National Fire Protection Association. 23–25.
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/05/2/ A Rio-Niterói é a maioridade da engenharia nacional
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/16/2/ Esta é a hora da esperança, diz Geisel
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/25/2/ Chuvas continuam e os prejuízos aumentam no Interior e no País
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/05/18/2/ Por Itaipu, uma usina e uma estrada
- Book: Latin America. Latin American Newsletters Limited. 1974. 160.
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/07/02/2/ É sancionada a fusão dos dois Estados
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/07/30/2/ Carreta mata 69 pessoas na Belém-Brasília
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0qX8s2k1IRwC&dat=19740730&printsec=frontpage&hl=pt-BR Desastre mata 69 na estrada Belém-Brasília
- Book: Leslie Hawkins Damasceno. Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. Wayne State University Press. 1996. 9780814325957. 244.