1944 in Brazil

none 1944 Events in the year 1944 in Brazil. Incumbents Federal government President: Getúlio Vargas Governors Alagoas: Ismar de Góis Monteiro Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia Bahia: Renato Onofre Pinto Aleixo 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: Magalhães Barata Paraíba: Rui Carneiro Paraná: Manuel Ribas Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães Piauí: Leônidas Melo Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão/Antonio Fernandes Dantas Rio Grande do Sul: Ernesto Dornelles Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos São Paulo: Fernando de Sousa Costa Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes Vice governors Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor São Paulo: no vice governor 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.Command Magazine, issue 51, page 34 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 (died 2025)Encyclopedia of Journalism https://archive.org/details/encyclopediajour00ster_321 limited Hudson Berkley SAGE 2009 978-0-7619-2957-4 Sterling Christopher H. Thousand Oaks, Calif. 1060–67 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet 27 June - Zezé Motta, actress and singer 11 July - Valdeir Vieira, football manager 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician (died 2016)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/21/nana-vasconcelos-obituary Naná Vasconcelos obituary The Guardian 21 March 2016 John Fordham 30 June 2023 6 October - Amelinha Teles, journalist and human rights activist (died 2026)Morre Amelinha Teles, escritora e militante da ditadura militar pt 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist (died 2021) 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972) 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creatorhttp://lambiek.net/artists/l/leo.htm Leo Lambiek's Comiclopedia 27 January 2010 15 December - Chico Mendes, rubber tapper and activist (died 1988)https://moralheroes.org/chico-mendes/ Chico Mendes Moral Heroes 4 March 2013 20 June 2023 Deaths 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851) References See also 1944 in Brazilian football List of Brazilian films of 1944 1944 in Category:1940s in Brazil Category:Years of the 20th century in Brazil Brazil Brazil