1967 in Brazil


Events in the year 1967 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President:

Governors

Acre: VacantAlagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos AreosaBahia: Lomanto Junior then Luís Viana Filho Ceará: Plácido CasteloEspírito Santo:

Vice governors

Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz Amazonas: Rui Arajuo Bahia:

Events

January

February

9 February: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco signs the Press Law, where news, radio, and television stations are heavily regulated.13 February: The Cruzeiro Novo, equivalent to one thousand old Cruzeiros, begins to circulate.

March

1 March: Police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.15 March: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva is sworn in as the 27th President of Brazil.18 March: Floods and landslides hit Caraguatatuba, São Paulo.

July

18 July: Former President of Brazil, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, dies in a plane crash in Fortaleza, Ceará.

September

6-'13 September: King Olav V of Norway visits Brazil.

December

5 December: The National Indigenous People Foundation is created.

Births

January

8 January: Guilherme Fontes, actor

March

6 March: Sérgio Pereira Couto, Portuguese-Brazilian writer

July

1 July: Marisa Monte, singer

August

1 August: José Padilha, film director, producer and screenwriter

September

November

5 November: Marcelo D2, rapper 13 November:

December

14 December: Palhinha, footballer

Deaths

February

26 February: Octacílio, footballer

July

18 July: Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, first president during the Brazilian military dictatorship 19 July: Luz del Fuego, ballerina, naturist and feminist

November

19 November: João Guimarães Rosa, novelist