1940 in Brazil

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Year of Constitution: 1937

Events in the year 1940 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Getúlio Vargas

### Governors

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* Alagoas:
* Osman Laurel (until 31 October)
* José Maria Correia das Neves (from 31 October)
* Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
* Bahia: 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:
* till 29 July: Argemiro de Figueiredo
* 29 July-16 August: Antônio Galdino Guedes
* starting 16 August: Rui Carneiro
* Paraná: Manuel Ribas
* Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
* Piauí: Leônidas Melo
* Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
* Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
* Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
* São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
* Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

### Vice governors

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

## Events

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* 27 April \- The Estádio do Pacaembu is inaugurated, at a ceremony attended by President Getúlio Vargas.

### May

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* 1 May: President Getúlio Vargas signs a decree, establishing the country's minimum wage.[1]
* 12 May \- The Interlagos Circuit is inaugurated in São Paulo.
* 5 June \- President Vargas approves broad military collaboration between Brazil and the United States.

* date unknown \- The minority Baenan language becomes extinct.[2]

## Arts and culture

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### Films

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* Argila, directed by Humberto Mauro

## Births

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* 22 February \- Aracy Balabanian, actress (died 2023)
* 29 March \- Astrud Gilberto, singer-songwriter (died 2023)[3]
* 15 May \- Oscar Castro-Neves, guitarist, arranger, and composer (died 2013)[4]
* 19 May \- Carlos Diegues, film director (died 2025)
* 23 June \- Sérgio Reis, singer and actor
* 9 July \- Jair da Costa, footballer (died 2025)[5]
* 21 July \- Marco Maciel, politician (died 2021)
* 23 September \- Michel Temer, politician
* 23 October \- Pelé, footballer (died 2022)[6]
* 16 December \- Adelaide Neri, teacher and politician.[7]

## Deaths

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* 29 January \- Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, born second-in-line to the Imperial throne of Brazil (born 1875)
* 6 October \- Adolfo Lutz, physician and epidemiologist (born 1855)
* 8 November \- Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (born 1905; air crash)
* date unknown \- Manuel F. Araujo, actor (born 1880)

## References

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1. ^ "Assignado o decreto que institue o salario minimo no paiz" (primeira página do único caderno), Folha da Noite (2 de maio de 1940).[failed verification]
2. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains". Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 52: 7–60\. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.
3. ^ Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83
4. ^ Morre Oscar Castro Neves (in Portuguese)
5. ^ Brazilian and Inter Milan legend Jair da Costa dies, aged 84
6. ^ Pelé; Duarte, Orlando; Bellos, Alex (2006). Pelé : the autobiography. London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. p. 14\. ISBN 978-0-7432-7582-8. Retrieved 2 October 2010. "Shortly before I came along, there was another arrival in Três Corações: electricity. In order to celebrate this great improvement to our daily lives, Dondinho named me Edson, a tribute to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb. In fact, on my birth certificate I am actually called Edison with an 'i', a mistake that persists to this day. I'm Edson with no 'i', but to my eternal annoyance quite often the 'i' appears on official or personal documents and time after time I have to explain why. As if that wasn't confusing enough, they got the date wrong on my birth certificate as well – it says 21 October. I'm not sure how this came about; probably because in Brazil we're not so fussy about accuracy. This is another mistake that carries on to this day. When I took out my first passport, the date was put in as 21 October and each time I have renewed it the date has stayed the same."
7. ^ Mello, Bruna (24 May 2018). "Mãe de prefeita, a ex-deputada Adelaide Neri morre aos 77 anos" [Mother of mayor, former deputy Adelaide Neri dies at 77]. A Gazeta do Acre [pt] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 September 2022.+[pt]&rft.atitle=Mãe+de+prefeita,+a+ex-deputada+Adelaide+Neri+morre+aos+77+anos&rft.date=2018-05-24&rft.aulast=Mello&rft.aufirst=Bruna&rft_id=https://agazetadoacre.com/2018/05/flash/mae-de-prefeita-e-ex-deputada-adelaide-neri-morre-aos-77-anos/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1940+in+Brazil" class="Z3988">

## See also

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* 1940 in Brazilian football
* List of Brazilian films of 1940

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