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1942 in Brazil
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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
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.[1]
January
- January 28 - Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with the Axis countries.[2]
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.[3][4]
October
- October 28 - The Brazilian freighter Rio Branco attacks a German submarine.[5][6]
November
- November 1 - The Cruzeiro "antigo" is adopted as the official currency.[7]
Arts and culture
Books
- Jorge Amado - Gabriela
- Júlio Afrânio Peixoto - Pepitas
Films
- Saludos Amigos (first appearance of José Carioca, the cigar-smoking Brazilian parrot)[8]
Music
- Heitor Villa-Lobos - Rudepoêma (orchestral version) [9]
Births
January
- 19 January - Nara Leão, singer and actress (died 1989)
March
- 6 March - Flora Purim, jazz singer[10]
- 19 March - José Serra, politician
April
- 20 April - Roberto Freire, politician
- 23 April - Jorge Antunes, composer[11]
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)[12]
- 17 October - Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1882)
