1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Events

• 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
• 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
• September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.^[1]
• 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
• date unknown
  • The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
  • Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.

Arts and culture

Books

• Jorge Amado - São Jorge dos Ilhéus
• Oswald de Andrade - Meu Testamento

Films

• Corações Sem Piloto
• Berlim na Batucada
• É Proibido Sonhar
• O Brasileiro João de Souza

Music

• Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1

Births

• 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist
• 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
• 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician
• 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist
• 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
• 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator^[2]

Deaths

• 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)

See also

1944 in Brazilian football

References