1944 in Brazil

Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

Vice governors

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)

References

Command Magazine, issue 51, page 34
"Leo". Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved 27 January 2010.

See also

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1944 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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