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Events in the year 1977 in Brazil.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- President: General Ernesto Geisel
- Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos
Governors
[edit]- Acre: Vacant
- Alagoas: Divaldo Suruagy
- Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis
- Bahia: Roberto Santos
- Ceará: José Adauto Bezerra
- Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares
- Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr.
- Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
- Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
- Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
- Minas Gerais: Aureliano Chaves
- Pará: Aloysio Chaves
- Paraíba: Ivan Bichara
- Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
- Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
- Piauí: Dirceu Arcoverde
- Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
- Rio Grande do Norte: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
- Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
- Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
- São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins
- Sergipe: José Rollemberg
Vice governors
[edit]- Acre: Omar Sabino de Paula
- Alagoas: Vacant
- Amazonas: João Bosco Ramos de Lima
- Bahia: Edvaldo Brandão Correia
- Ceará: José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva
- Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
- Goiás: José Luís Bittencourt
- Maranhão: José Duailibe Murad
- Mato Grosso: Cássio Leite de Barros
- Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
- Minas Gerais: Levindo Ozanam Coelho
- Pará: Clovis Silva de Morais Rego
- Paraíba: Dorgival Terceiro Neto
- Paraná: Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
- Pernambuco: Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
- Piauí: Djalma Martins Veloso
- Rio de Janeiro: Vacant
- Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo Melo
- Rio Grande do Sul: José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
- Santa Catarina: Marcos Henrique Büechler
- São Paulo: Ferreira Filho
- Sergipe: Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo
Events
[edit]April
[edit]- April 1: President Ernesto Geisel closes the National Congress of Brazil to control presidential succession as conflict erupts between him, the duristas, Congress, the Church, and the media.[1][2]
- April 14: President Geisel signs constitutional amendment n°8 and reopens the National Congress of Brazil.[3]
June
[edit]- June 23: In a second ballot by 226 votes in favor and 159 against; the National Congress of Brazil approves a constitutional amendment by Senators Nelson Carneiro and Acioli Filho, that legalizes divorce.[4]
August
[edit]- August 3: Writer Rachel de Queiroz becomes the first woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.[5]
- August 17: Jorge Amado's novel Tieta do Agreste is published, which becomes one of his best-selling works.[6]
October
[edit]- October 1: Pelé, playing for the New York Cosmos, scores his last goal to defeat Santos FC 2-1, at Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. This would be his last official game, thus saying goodbye to his professional football career.[7]
- October 11: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law, creating the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.[8]
December
[edit]- December 26: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that legalizes and regulates divorce.[9]
Births
[edit]March
[edit]- 27 March: Vítor Meira race car driver
April
[edit]- 1 April: Vitor Belfort, MMA fighter
June
[edit]- 8 June: Falcão, footballer
July
[edit]- 20 July: Susana Werner, model and actress
- 30 July: Fabrício Werdum, Jiu-Jitsu practitioner
August
[edit]- 24 August: Denílson, footballer
September
[edit]- 14 September: Alex, footballer
October
[edit]- 31 October: Larissa Maciel, actress
November
[edit]- 6 November: Demian Maia, mixed martial artist
- 8 November: João Rodrigo Silva Santos soccer player (d. 2013)
December
[edit]- December 12: Evangelista Santos, mixed martial arts fighter
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- 22 January: Maysa Matarazzo, singer (b. 1936)
February
[edit]- 13 February: Carolina Maria de Jesus, memorialist (b. 1914)
March
[edit]- 18 March: Carlos Pace, racing driver,(b. 1944)
July
[edit]- 21 July: Zózimo, World Cup-winning footballer (b. 1932)
December
[edit]- 9 December: Clarice Lispector, writer (b. 1920)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Breneman, Tracy Ann (September 1995), BRAZIL'S AUTHORITARIAN EXPERIENCE: 1964–1985; A STUDY OF A CONFLICT, University of Colorado, Boulder, archived from the original on March 4, 2016, retrieved October 26, 2015
- ^ "Não haverá cassações agora" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de abril de 1977).
- ^ "Consumada a reforma política" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (15 de abril de 1977).
- ^ "Implantado o divórcio no País" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (24 de junho de 1977).
- ^ "Academia: Rachel de Queiroz ou a tradição masculina" (página 40 do caderno Ilustrada), Folha de S. Paulo (4 de agosto de 1977).
- ^ Jorge Amado with translation by Barbara Shelby Merello (1979). Tieta. Avon Books. p. 672.
- ^ "Um adeus de rei, com gol" (página 55 do 4° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de outubro de 1977).
- ^ "Criado o Estado de MT do Sul" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (12 de outubro de 1977).
- ^ "Em vigor o divórcio" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (27 de dezembro de 1977).
See also
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