2003 in Brazil
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Events in the year 2003 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Acre: Jorge Viana
- Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
- Amapa: Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
- Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
- Bahia:
- Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
- Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
- Ceará:
- Beni Veras (until 1 January)
- Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
- Espírito Santo:
- José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
- Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
- Goiás: Marconi Perillo
- Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
- Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
- Minas Gerais:
- Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
- Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
- Pará:
- Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
- Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
- Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
- Paraná:
- Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
- Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
- Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos
- Piauí:
- Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
- Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro:
- Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
- Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
- Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
- Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
- Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
- Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
- Santa Catarina:
- Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
- Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
- São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
- Sergipe:
- Albano Franco (until 1 January)
- João Filho (from 1 January)
- Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)
Vice governors
- Acre:
- Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
- Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
- Alagoas:
- Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
- Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
- Amapá:
- Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
- Amazonas:
- Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
- Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
- Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
- Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
- Espírito Santo:
- Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
- Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
- Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho
- Maranhão: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso: Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
- Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
- Minas Gerais:
- Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
- Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
- Pará:
- Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
- Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
- Paraíba: Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
- Paraná:
- Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
- Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
- Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
- Piauí:
- Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
- Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
- Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
- Rondônia:
- Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
- Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
- Roraima:
- Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
- Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
- Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
- São Paulo:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
- Sergipe:
- Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
- Tocantins:
- João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
- Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)
Events
January
- January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.[1]
- January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself.[2]
- January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.[3]
June
- June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil.[4]
August
- August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.[5][6][7]
- August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.[8]
September
- September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. [9]
October
- October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program.[10]
Births
- June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player
Deaths
January
- January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)
March
- March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)
April
- April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)
May
- May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
- May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)
June
- June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)
July
- July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
- July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)
August
- August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
- August 19: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)
