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1938 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Osman Laurel
- Amazonas: Ãlvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Antônio Fernandes Dantas then Landulfo Alves
- Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
- EspÃrito 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
- ParaÃba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
- Paraná: Manuel Ribas
- Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
- PiauÃ: Leônidas Melo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- till 19 January: Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho
- 19 January-4 March: Joaquim MaurÃcio Cardoso
- from 4 March: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
- Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
- São Paulo:
- till 25 April: José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto
- 25 April-27 April: Francisco José da Silva Júnior
- from 27 April: Ademar de Barros
- Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
- São Paulo: no vice governor
Events
- 2 January - The governmental radio program Hora do Brasil begins to be broadcast throughout the country.[1]
- 3 January - The presidential election is not held due to Getúlio Vargas' coup d'état.
- May â 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.[2]
- 28 July â 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.[3]
- Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.[4]
Arts and culture
Films
- Alma e Corpo de uma Raça
- Aruanã
- Maridinho de Luxo
- Tererê Não Resolve
Births
January
- 16 January: Jô Soares, comedian and talk show host (died 2022)
- 27 January: Raul Gil, television presenter and singer
April
- 5 April: Marly Marley, actress and vedette (died 2014)
June
- 6 June: Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (died 2022)
July
- 23 July: Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer[5]
- 25 July: Sérgio Ferro, painter
August
- 18 August: Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)
November
- 5 November: Enéas Carneiro, politician (died 2007)
- 25 November: Luiz Henrique Rosa, musician and soccer player (died 1985)[6]
Deaths
- 28 July:
- Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)[7]
- Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)
