2001 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 2001 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Fernando Henrique Cardoso^[1]
• Vice President: Marco Maciel

Governors

• • • Acre: Jorge Viana Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa Amapa: João Capiberibe
• Amazonas: Amazonino Mendes
  • • • • Bahia: César Borges Ceará: Tasso Jereissati Espírito Santo: José Ignácio Ferreira Goiás: Marconi Perillo Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
• Mato Grosso: Dante de Oliveira
• Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
  • • • • • Minas Gerais: Itamar Franco Pará: Almir Gabriel Paraíba: José Maranhão Paraná: Jaime Lerner Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos Piauí:
  • Mão Santa (until 6 November)
  • Kléber Eulálio (9 November-19 November)
  • Hugo Napoleão (from 19 November)
• Rio de Janeiro: Anthony Garotinho
  • • • • • Rio Grande do Norte: Garibaldi Alves Filho Rio Grande do Sul: Olívio Dutra Rondônia: José de Abreu Bianco Roraima: Neudo Ribeiro Campos Santa Catarina: Esperidião Amin São Paulo:
  • Mário Covas (till 6 March)
  • Geraldo Alckmin (from 6 March)
  • Sergipe: Albano Franco Tocantins: José Wilson Siqueira Campos

Vice governors

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Acre: Edison Simão Cadaxo Alagoas: Geraldo Costa Sampaio Amapá: Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo Amazonas: Samuel Assayag Hanan Bahia: Otto Alencar Ceará: Benedito Clayton Veras Alcântara Espírito Santo: Celso José Vasconcelos Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho Maranhão: José Reinaldo Carneiro Tavares Mato Grosso: José Rogério Sales Mato Grosso do Sul: Moacir Kohl Minas Gerais: Newton Cardoso Pará: Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes Paraíba: Antônio Roberto de Sousa Paulino Paraná: Emília de Sales Belinati Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho Piauí:
  • Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (until 6 November)
  • Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (from 19 November)
• Rio de Janeiro: Benedita da Silva
  • • • • Rio Grande do Norte: Fernando Freire Rio Grande do Sul: Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto Rondônia: Miguel de Souza Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela Santa Catarina: Paulo Roberto Bauer
• São Paulo:
  • Geraldo Alckmin (till 6 March)
  • Vacant (from 6 March)
• Sergipe: Benedito de Figueiredo
• Tocantins: João Lisboa da Cruz

Events

January

• January 11

A flash fire hits the studio of the children's program Xuxa Park, leaving 26 injured; seven being serious. The fire started while Xuxa Meneghel was recording the special carnival program and singing her biggest hit, Ilariê.^[2]

• January 12

The third edition of Rock in Rio with performances by Sting, R.E.M., Guns N' Roses, 'N Sync, Iron Maiden, Neil Young, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

• January 15

Gol Transportes Aéreos starts operations with a flight from Brasilia to São Paulo.^[3]

February

• February 2

The Canadian government suspends imports of Brazilian beef due to mad cow disease.^[4]

• February 4

Musician Herbert Vianna is left a paraplegic after his ultralight plane crashed in Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro. His wife Lucy Needhan-Vianna is killed in the crash.^[5]

• February 19

The First Command of the Capital organizes a major rebellion in São Paulo prisons, leaving 14 inmates dead and 19 correctional officers injured. Until then, it would be the biggest rebellion registered in Brazil.^[6]

March

• March 15

Three explosions on the P-36 platform, the largest oil production platform in the world, in Campos Basin; leaves eleven employees dead.^[7]

April

• April 15

A walkway collapses inside the Estácio de Sá University campus in Barra da Tijuca, West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, injuring 54 people.^[8]

May

• May 17

The electricity rationing program in the Southeast, Central-West, and Northeast regions take effect. Measure was announced by the Federal government to control the Blackout Crisis.^[9]

• May 30

Amidst accusations of involvement in the electronic panel violation scandal, Senator Antônio Carlos Magalhães (PFL-BA) resigns from office to avoid his impeachment.^{[10] [11]}

July

• July 30

Colonel Ubiratan Guimarães is sentenced to 632 years in prison for the death of 102 prisoners in the Carandiru Massacre. ^[12]

August

• August 6

18-year-old Robério Souza de Oliveira shot six students and a teacher with a shotgun at a school in Macaúbas, after the shooting the perpetrator fled and committed suicide.^[13]

• August 21

Student Patrícia Abravanel, daughter of presenter and businessman Silvio Santos, is kidnapped in São Paulo. She was released from captivity seven days after the ransom was paid. ^[14]

• August 30

Presenter and businessman Silvio Santos is kidnapped from his home in Jardim Morumbi, São Paulo after it was invaded by Fernando Dutra Pinto. Pinto led the gang that kidnapped Santos' daughter, Patricia, the week before. After 8 hours of negotiation, Pinto surrendered to police with the arrival of São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin at the scene.^[15]

September

• September 10

Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, is assassinated.^[16]

• September 11

Three Brazilians are killed in the September 11 attacks in the United States.^[17]

November

• November 24

A fire at a nightclub leaves seven dead and 197 injured in Belo Horizonte.^[18]

• November 26

One hundred and six prisoners escape from the Sao Paulo House of Detention prison through a dug tunnel; the largest recorded escape in its history.^{[19] [20]}

December

• December 3

Transbrasil, the third largest airline in Brazil ceases all operations.^[21]

Births

January

• January 9  - Rodrygo, footballer

June

• June 18  - Gabriel Martinelli, footballer

September

• September 24  - Jade Picon, social media personality

December

• December 14  - Luis Henrique, footballer

Deaths

January

• January 12  -
  • Luiz Bonfá, guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
  • Adhemar da Silva, triple jumper (b. 1927)
• January 20  - Nico Assumpção, bass player (b. 1954)

February

• February 27  - Walther Moreira Salles, banker and politician (b. 1912)

March

• March 6  - Mário Covas, then Governor of São Paulo (b. 1930)
• March 8  - Luís Rocha, politician and lawyer (b. 1937)

April

• April 1  - Eugênio German, chess master (b. 1930)

May

• May 15  - Juracy Magalhães, military officer and politician (b. 1905)

June

• June 13  - Marcelo Fromer, guitarist for the band Titãs (b. 1961)
• June 24: Milton Santos, geographer (b. 1926)

August

• August 10  - Jorge Amado, Brazil's best known modern writer (b. 1912)

September

• September 10  - Toninho, architect and politician (b. 1952)

October

• October 9  - Roberto de Oliveira Campos, economist (b. 1917)

December

• December 29  - Cássia Eller, musician (b. 1962)

See also

• 2001 in Brazilian football
• 2001 in Brazilian television
• List of Brazilian films of 2001

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fernando Henrique Cardoso Biography & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 23 June 2020 . en.
2. Web site: Castro . Thell de . Em 2001, incêndio na Globo destruiu cenário do Xuxa Park e quase matou Xuxa . Notícias da TV . 18 January 2023 . pt-BR . 9 August 2020.
3. Web site: 15 January 2016. 16 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160116143056/http://www.voegol.com.br/pt-br/a-gol/memoria-gol/memoria/paginas/default.aspx. Gol. Memória. live.
4. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2001/02/03/2/ "Governo canadense veta carne brasileira"
5. Web site: 4 February 2001. Folha de S. Paulo. Herbert Vianna sofre acidente de ultraleve e sua mulher morre.
6. Web site: 19 February 2001. Folha de S. Paulo. PCC lidera 27 mil presos em 19 cidades de SP na maior rebelião da história do país.
7. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2001/03/16/2/ "Explosões em plataforma da Petrobras fazem 11 vítimas"
8. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/cotidian/ff1604200124.htm "Passarela de universidade desaba no Rio"
9. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/dinheiro/ult91u21887.shtml "Racionamento de energia começa hoje e antecipa cortes"
10. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-magalhaes21jul21,0,5532868.story?coll=la-home-obituaries AP via the Los Angeles Times, "Antonio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhaes, 79; influential politician in Brazil" 21 July 2007
11. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/world/americas/21magalhaes.html?ex=1342670400&en=17dddcbf0fc892fb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss New York Times, "Antonio Carlos Magalhães, Brazil Politician, Dies at 79" July 21 2007
12. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2001/07/01/2/ "Coronel deve permanecer em liberdade para recorrer"
13. Web site: Folha de S.Paulo - Bahia: Agricultor invade escola, fere 7 e se mata - 07/08/2001 . 2024-04-16 . www1.folha.uol.com.br.
14. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u35824.shtml "Termina sequestro de Patrícia, 24, filha de Silvio Santos"
15. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/ult95u36005.shtml "Homem invade casa de Silvio Santos, no Morumbi (SP)"
16. Lilian Santos (28 February 2002), POLÍCIA DE SÃO PAULO DIVULGA LAUDOS DOS CASOS DOS PREFEITOS DO PT... São Paulo State Public Security Secretariat (SSP-SP) official site. In Portuguese; accessed on 17 August 2009.
17. Web site: Lembranças de dor e perplexidade: Emoção marca cerimônia pelos mortos em 11 de setembro . Jornal do Brasil . pt . 11 September 2003 . Dentre eles, os de três brasileiros: Anne Marie Sallerin Ferreira, Sandra Fajardo Smith e Ivan Kyrillos Barbosa . 19 September 2003 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030919021606/http://jbonline.terra.com.br/destaques/11setembro2003/12set_01_eua.html . 19 September 2003 .
18. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2007/12/05/2/ "Incêndio em casa de show mata 6 em BH"
19. http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2001/11/27/2/ "108 presos escapam por túnel na maior fuga do Carandiru"
20. http://g1.globo.com/minas-gerais/noticia/2013/01/so-1-dos-condenados-por-incendio-em-boate-de-bh-em-2001-cumpre-pena.html "Seis condenados por incêndio no 'Canecão Mineiro' cumprem pena
21. Web site: Transbrasil Secret Files . 14 October 2011.