1938 in Brazil

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

• Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• May – The Brazilian integralist movement attempt a coup d'état, supported by the Axis powers. The failure of the "Pajama Putsch" leads to the dissolution of the AIB.[1]
• 28 July – Folk hero Lampião and his band are ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angicos farm, in the state of Sergipe.
• date unknown
  • Michel Bernanos visits Brazil for the first time.[2]
  • Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.[3]

Arts and culture

Films

• Alma e Corpo de uma Raça
• Aruanã
• Maridinho de Luxo
• Tererê Não Resolve

Births

• 27 January – Raul Gil, television presenter and singer
• 5 April – Marly Marley, actress and vedette (died 2014)
• 18 August – Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)
• 6 June – Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
• 23 July – Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer[4]
• 25 July – Sérgio Ferro, painter
• 5 November – Enéas Carneiro, politician (died 2007)
• 25 November – Luiz Henrique Rosa, musician and soccer player (died 1985)[5]

Deaths

• 28 July
  • Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)[6]
  • Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)

References

1. R.S. Rose (2000), One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930–1954, Westport: Greenwood, p. 86.
2. "Michel Bernanos". Pages Françaises de Science-Fiction (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2012.
3. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000). p 21
4. Menalton Braff, leitor de Cecília Meireles
5. Allmusic
6. Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.

See also

• 1938 in Brazilian football
• List of Brazilian films of 1938