1951 in Brazil
Years 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
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Second Brazilian Republic
Year of Constitution: 1946

Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President:
  • Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (until 30 January)
  • Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
• Vice President:
  • Nereu Ramos (until 30 January)
  • Café Filho (from 31 January)

Governors

• Alagoas:
  • Silvestre Pericles (until 31 January)
  • Arnon de Mello (from 31 January)
• Amazonas:
  • Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (until 31 January)
  • Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January)
• Bahia:
  • Otávio Mangabeira (until 31 January)
  • Régis Pacheco (from 31 January)
• Ceará:
  • Faustino de Albuquerque (until 31 January)
  • Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
• Espírito Santo:
  • Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (until 31 January)
  • Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January)
• Goiás:
  • Hosanah Guimarães (until 31 January)
  • Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January)
• Maranhão:
  • Sebastião Archer (until 31 January)
  • Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira (from 31 January)
• Mato Grosso:
  • Jari Gomes (until 31 January)
  • Fernando Corrêa da Costa (from 31 January)
• Minas Gerais:
  • Milton Soares Campos (until 31 January)
  • Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
• Pará:
  • Alberto Engelhard (until 25 January: )
  • Waldir Bouhid (25 January-27 January)
  • Arnaldo Lobo (27 January-9 February)
  • Abel Nunes de Figueiredo (9 February-20 February)
  • Zacarias de Assumpção (from 20 February)
• Paraíba:
  • Osvaldo Trigueiro (until 31 January)
  • José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
• Paraná:
  • Moisés Lupion (until 31 January)
  • Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto (from 31 January)
• Pernambuco:
  • Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (until 31 January)
  • Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January)
• Piauí:
  • José da Rocha Furtado (until 31 January)
  • Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
• Rio de Janeiro:
  • Macedo Soares (until 31 January)
  • Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte:
  • José Augusto Varela (until 31 January)
  • Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado (31 January-16 July)
  • Silvio Piza Pedrosa (from 16 July)
• Rio Grande do Sul:
  • Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January)
  • Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
• Santa Catarina:
  • Aderbal Ramos da Silva (until 31 January)
  • Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January)
• São Paulo:
  • Ademar de Barros (until 31 January)
  • Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January)
• Sergipe:
  • Jose Rollemberg (until 31 January)
  • João Dantas Martins dos Reis (31 January-17 February)
  • Edélzio Vieira de Melo (17 February-12 March)
  • Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez (from 12 March)

Vice governors

• Alagoas:
  • Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (until 31 January)
  • Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January)
• Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
• Espírito Santo:
  • José Rodrigues Sette (until 31 January)
  • Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January)
• Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January)
• Maranhão:
  • Saturnino Bello (until 31 January)
  • Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January)
• Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January)
• Minas Gerais:
  • José Ribeiro Pena (until 31 January)
  • Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January)
• Paraíba:
  • José Targino Pereira da Costa (until 31 January)
  • João Fernandes de Lima (from 31 January)
• Piauí:
  • Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (until 31 January)
  • Tertuliano Milton Brandão (from 31 January)
• Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda (from 31 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte:
  • Tomaz Salustino (until 31 January)
  • Sylvio Pedroza (31 January-16 July)
  • Vacant (from 16 July)
• São Paulo:
  • Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (until 31 January)
  • Erlindo Salzano (from 31 January)
• Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo (from 31 January)

Events

• date unknown
  • The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.^[1]
  • The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.^[2]

January

• 18 January: Getúlio Vargas is proclaimed president-elect by the Superior Electoral Court.^[3]
• 13 January: Getúlio Vargas assumes his second term as the 17th President of Brazil, this time elected by direct vote.^[4]

March

• Unknown Date: Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.^[5]

June

• 12 June: Última Hora, a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.^[6]

July

• 3 July: President Getúlio Vargas signs the Afonso Arinos Law, which prohibits racial discrimination in Brazil.^[7]
• 12 July: A Linhas Aéreas Paulistas plane collides with a tree located 3 kilometers from the runway at the Aracaju airport, killing 32 passengers and crew.^[8][9]

Arts and culture

Books

• Ștefan Baciu - Analiza cuvântului dor

Films

• Agüenta Firme, Isidoro, directed by Luiz de Barros.
• Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
• Amazon Symphony, directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
• Quando a Noite Acaba, starring Tônia Carrero.
• O Saci, directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.^[10]

Births

January

• 2 January:
  • Lula Ferreira, professional basketball coach
  • Waldir Peres, footballer (died 2017)

April

• 9 April: Sérgio Rezende, filmmaker
• 29 April: Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician

July

• 12 July: Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician^[11]

August

• 13 August: Beto Guedes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
• 14 August: Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic^[12]

October

• 20 October: José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politician^[13]

Deaths

August

• 2 August: Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882)

November

• 13 November: Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912)