1969 in Brazil
Years 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971
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Year of Constitution: 1967

Events in the year 1969 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President:
  • Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (until 31 August)
  • Pedro Aleixo (from 31 August to 30 October, de jure)
  • Admiral Augusto Rademaker, General Aurélio de Lira Tavares and General Márcio Melo (from 31 August to 30 October, de facto)
  • General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (starting 30 October)
• Vice President:
  • Pedro Aleixo (until 31 August)
  • Vacant (from 31 August to October)
  • General Augusto Rademaker (from October 30)

Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
• Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
• Bahia: Luís Viana Filho
• Ceará: Plácido Castelo
• Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
• Goiás: Otávio Lage
• Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima
• Maranhão: Jose Sarney
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
• Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
• Pará: Alacid Nunes
• Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
• Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
• Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
• Piauí: Helvídio Nunes
• Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
• Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
• Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
• Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
• São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
• Sergipe: Lourival Baptista

Vice governors

• Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
• Amazonas:
  • Rui Arajuo (until 26 July)
  • Vacant thereafter (from 26 July)
• Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
• Ceará: Humberto Ellery
• Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
• Goiás: Osires Teixeira
• Maranhão: Antonio Jorge Dino
• Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
• Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
• Pará: João Renato Franco
• Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias
• Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
• Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
• Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
• Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
• Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
• Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
• São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
• Sergipe: Vacant

Events

February

• February 26: President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-7, which suspends elections for governors and mayors.^[1]

March

• March 20: The Brazilian Company of Posts and Telegraphs (ECT) is founded; a public company that replaces the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT).^[2]

April

• 16 April: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested for the second time. ^[3]

May

• Unknown Date: Castor de Andrade is released in the beginning of the month, after being detained on Ilha das Flores. This is the last time he's detained by the military regime.^[3]

August

• 16 August: Embraer is created by the Brazilian government as a national champion for domestic aerospace technology.^[4]
• 31 August: A military junta rules the country following the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva. The junta is made up of ministers Aurélio de Lira Tavares from the Army, Augusto Rademaker from the Navy, and Márcio de Sousa e Melo from the Air Force.^[5]

September

• September 1: The newscast Jornal Nacional on Rede Globo de Televisão premieres.^[6]
• September 4: The US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, is kidnapped by two armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 and the ALN, in Rio de Janeiro.^[7]
• September 7: US Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick is freed by armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 in Rio de Janeiro.^[8]
• September 18: In Rio de Janeiro, the Provisional Governing Board signs a decree-law, establishing the new National Security Law.^[9]

October

• October 15: The three military ministers sign the Complementary Acts in Rio de Janeiro, which order the reopening of the National Congress of Brazil.^[10]
• October 17: The military junta promulgates Constitutional Amendment n°1, known as the 1969 Constitution.^[11]
• October 25: ARENA candidate Emílio Garrastazu Médici is elected President of Brazil by a joint session of Congress, specially reopened by AI-16.^[12]
• October 30: Emílio Garrastazu Médici takes office as the 28th president of Brazil.^[13]

November

• November 4: Ação Libertadora Nacional leader Carlos Marighella is shot to death by DOPS agents in São Paulo. ^[14][15]
• November 19: Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium.^[16]

Births

January

• 16 January: Daniela Escobar, actress and television presenter

April

• 30 April: Paulo Jr., bassist

June

• 30 June: Dira Paes, actress

July

• 25 July: David Brazil, promoter and actor

September

• 5 September: Leonardo, footballer
• 18 September: Gralak, footballer
• 26 September: Dan Stulbach, actor, television presenter, director and artistic director

November

• 11 November: Bismarck Barreto Faria, footballer

December

• 5 December: Jean Elias, footballer

Deaths

March

• 12 March: Adhemar de Barros, politician

July

• 10 July: João de Souza Mendes, chess master

September

• 6 September: Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player^[17]

November

• 4 November: Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary and writer
• 7 November: Cyro de Freitas Valle, lawyer

December

• 17 December: Artur da Costa e Silva, former president, heart attack