- Source: 1942 in Brazil
Events in the year 1942 in Brazil.
Establishments
Construction of the Basilica Shrine of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces was completed.
Incumbents
= Federal government
=President: Getúlio Vargas
= Governors
=Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Landulfo Alves (till 3 December); Renato Pinto Aleixo (from 3 December)
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: 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 (till 4 June); Fernando de Sousa Costa (from 4 June)
Sergipe: Milton Pereira de Azevedo (till 27 March); Augusto Maynard Gomes (from 27 March)
= Vice governors
=Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
São Paulo: no vice governor
Events
date unknown - Aircraft manufacturer Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista is established in São Paulo.
= January
=January 28 - Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with the Axis countries.
= July
=July 26 - The Brazilian ship Tamandaré is sunk by the German submarine U-66 (1940) off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.
= August
=August 17 - The ships Itagiba and Arará are torpedoed by German submarine U-507.
August 22 - President Getúlio Vargas signs the declaration of war against Germany and Italy.
= October
=October 28 - The Brazilian freighter Rio Branco attacks a German submarine.
= November
=November 1 - The Cruzeiro "antigo" is adopted as the official currency.
Arts and culture
= Books
=Jorge Amado - Gabriela
Júlio Afrânio Peixoto - Pepitas
= Films
=Saludos Amigos (first appearance of José Carioca, the cigar-smoking Brazilian parrot)
= Music
=Heitor Villa-Lobos - Rudepoêma (orchestral version)
Births
= January
=19 January - Nara Leão, singer and actress (died 1989)
= March
=6 March - Flora Purim, jazz singer
19 March - José Serra, politician
= April
=20 April - Roberto Freire, politician
23 April - Jorge Antunes, composer
= June
=3 June - Celso Amorim, diplomat and politician
26 June - Gilberto Gil, singer, guitarist, and songwriter
= August
=7 August - Caetano Veloso, musician and writer
23 August
Jarbas Vasconcelos, politician and lawyer
Susana Vieira, actress (as Sônia Maria Vieira Gonçalves)
= October
=26 October - Anecy Rocha, actress (died 1977)
Deaths
13 February - Epitácio Pessoa, 11th President of Brazil (born (1865)
23 April - Olga Benário Prestes, political activist (born 1908 in Germany)
17 October - Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1882)
References
See also
1942 in Brazilian football
List of Brazilian films of 1942
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Anecy Rocha
- Kekaisaran Brasil
- Piala Dunia FIFA
- Penerbang Angkatan Laut Brasil
- Hypophthalmus edentatus
- Soekarno
- Luís Carlos Prestes
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Jepang
- Hubungan Amerika Serikat dengan Brasil
- 1942 in Brazil
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- Brazilian cruzeiro (1942–1967)
- Brazil in World War II
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- 1942 in Brazilian football
- List of Brazilian films of 1942
- 1942 South American Championship
- Subdivisions of Brazil
- Brazilian Navy
