1982 in Brazil explained
Events in the year 1982 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Acre: Vacant
- Alagoas:
- Guilherme Palmeira (until 15 March)
- Teobaldo Vasconcelos (from 15 March)
- Amazonas:
- Paraná:
- Nei Braga (until 14 May)
- José Hosken de Novais (from 14 May)
- Pernambuco:
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
- Augusto Franco (until 14 May)
- Djenal Queirós (from 14 May)
Vice governors
- Acre: José Fernandes Rego
- Alagoas: Teobaldo Vasconcelos Barbosa Amazonas:
- Paulo Pinto Nery (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Bahia: Luis Viana Neto Ceará:
- Manuel de Castro Filho (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Espírito Santo: José Carlos Fonseca Goiás: Rui Brasil Cavalcanti Maranhão:
- Artur Teixeira de Carvalho (until 29 January)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Mato Grosso: José Vilanova Torres Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
- Minas Gerais: João Marques de Vasconcelos Pará: Gerson dos Santos Peres Paraíba:
- Clóvis Cavalcanti (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Paraná:
- Pernambuco:
- Roberto Magalhães Melo (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Piauí: Waldemar de Castro Macedo
- Rio de Janeiro: Hamilton Xavier
- Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo Melo Rio Grande do Sul: Otávio Badui Germano Santa Catarina:
- Henrique Hélion Velho de Córdova (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
- Djenal Tavares Queiroz (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
Events
January
February
March
Gubernatorial candidates of São Paulo, Franco Montoro (PMDB) and Reinaldo de Barros (PDS), hold the first televised debate after the Falcão Law (prohibition of opposition parties) was suspended. [5]
May
June
A Boeing 727 plane, flying VASP 168, crashes in the Serra da Aratanha, near Pacatuba, Ceará, killing all 137 occupants. This would become the biggest air accident in the history of Brazilian aviation until 2006.[7]
French priests Aristides Camio and François Gouriou, along with thirteen squatters of São Geraldo do Araguaia are imprisoned in Belém, Pará, after violating National Security Law.[8]
October
Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito heads to Brasilia for his ten-day visit to Brazil.[9]
November
The largest hydroelectric plant in the world, Usina Hidrelétrica de Itaipu, is opened by Presidents João Figueiredo of Brazil and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay.[10]
Direct elections for governors, senators, mayors, federal and state deputies are held.[11] [12]
December
91 members of the Brazilian Communist Party are arrested for participating in their own 7th congress in São Paulo. [13]
Births
January
February
March
April
- April 22 - Kaká, footballer
May
June
- June 17 - Alex, association football player
July
August
September
Deaths
January
August
September
November
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 7 October 2015. 2010. Canal Ciência. Cândido Rondon.
- Book: Hendrik Kraay. Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s. 1 July 2016. Routledge. 978-1-315-50260-1. 122–4.
- Web site: Museu Afro-Brasileiro. Lonely Planet. 29 August 2016.
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/02/12/2 "Registro do PT"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/03/23/2 "Dono da TV muda as regras do debate"
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0qX8s2k1IRwC&dat=19820511&printsec=frontpage&hl=pt-BR "Brasil protesta contra EUA na chegada de Figueiredo"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/06/09/2 "Boeing explode, 135 mortos"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/06/23/2 "Condenados os padres franceses"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/10/05/2 "Naruhito vai ser recebido no Planalto"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/11/06/2 "Figueiredo e Stroessner abrem Itaipu"
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/11/15/2 "O povo não entregará seu destino a demagogos"
- Web site: 6 May 2011. 2011-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20111113173904/http://www.tse.gov.br/internet/eleicoes/cronologia.htm. Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Cronologia das eleições no Brasil (1945 - 2008).
- http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/1982/12/14/2 "Presa em São Paulo a cúpula do PCB"