1945 in Brazil

Events in the year 1945 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas (until 29 October); José Linhares (from 29 October)

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

Brazilian Expeditionary Force shoulder sleeve insignia (Army component)

• February - A fourth transport of troops of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force reaches Italy, in preparation for the Spring 1945 offensive.
• 2 May - Brazilian troops arrive in Turin on the same day that the cessation of hostilities is announced.
• May - Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, an outspoken critic of the regime of President Getúlio Vargas and of the Vatican's alleged relationship with fascist regimes,[1] gives newspaper interviews accusing Brazil's Papal nuncio of Nazi-Fascist spying, and accusing Rome of having aided and abetted Hitler. Shortly afterwards he establishes the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.
• 29 October - President Vargas resigns, beginning the period known as the Second Brazilian Republic. José Linhares becomes acting president.
• 2 December - A general election is held, the first since the establishment of Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo.[2] The presidential election is won by Eurico Gaspar Dutra of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which also wins a majority of seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Arts and culture

Books

• Oswald de Andrade - A Arcádia e a Inconfidência

Films

• O Cortiço
• O Gol da Vitória
• Não Adianta Chorar

Births

• 11 January - Geraldo Azevedo, singer and guitarist
• 13 August - Vânia Dantas Leite, pianist, conductor, music educator and composer[3]
• 26 September - Gal Costa, singer
• 8 October - Paulo Thiago, film director and screenwriter
• 27 October - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
• Unknown date - Eduardo Escorel, film editor and director

Deaths

• 25 February - Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer (born 1893; heart attack)[4]
• 12 April - Max Wolff Filho, war hero (born 1912; killed in action)[5]

See also

• 1945 in Brazilian football

References

1. ""Rebel in Rio", Time Magazine, July 23, 1945". Archived from the original on 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
2. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
3. Tyrrell, John (2001). The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 21.
4. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000).
5. EsSA Max Wolff Filho Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine (Portuguese)

See also

• 1945 in Brazilian football
• List of Brazilian films of 1945