1974 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1974 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Vice governors

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

May

July

December

Deaths

January

July

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/01/16/2/ Geisel eleito, por 400 votos a 76
  2. Book: Fire Journal. 1974. National Fire Protection Association. 23–25.
  3. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/05/2/ A Rio-Niterói é a maioridade da engenharia nacional
  4. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/16/2/ Esta é a hora da esperança, diz Geisel
  5. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/03/25/2/ Chuvas continuam e os prejuízos aumentam no Interior e no País
  6. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/05/18/2/ Por Itaipu, uma usina e uma estrada
  7. Book: Latin America. Latin American Newsletters Limited. 1974. 160.
  8. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/07/02/2/ É sancionada a fusão dos dois Estados
  9. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1974/07/30/2/ Carreta mata 69 pessoas na Belém-Brasília
  10. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0qX8s2k1IRwC&dat=19740730&printsec=frontpage&hl=pt-BR Desastre mata 69 na estrada Belém-Brasília
  11. Book: Leslie Hawkins Damasceno. Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. Wayne State University Press. 1996. 9780814325957. 244.