1987 in Brazil
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| 1987 in Brazil |
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Events in the year 1987 in Brazil:
Incumbents[edit]
Federal government[edit]
- President: José Sarney
- Vice President: Vacant
Governors[edit]
- Acre:
- Iolanda Fleming (until 15 March)
- Flaviano Melo (from 15 March)
- Alagoas:
- José de Medeiros Tavares (until 15 March)
- Fernando Collor de Mello (from 15 March)
- Amazonas:
- Gilberto Mestrinho (until 15 March)
- Amazonino Mendes (from 15 March)
- Bahia:
- João Durval Carneiro (until 15 March)
- Waldir Pires (from 15 March)
- Ceará:
- Gonzaga Mota (until 15 March)
- Tasso Jereissati (from 15 March)
- Espírito Santo:
- José Moraes (until 15 March)
- Max Freitas Mauro (from 15 March)
- Goiás:
- Onofre Quinan (until 15 March)
- Henrique Santillo (from 15 March)
- Maranhão:
- Luís Rocha (until 15 March)
- Epitácio Cafeteira (from 15 March)
- Mato Grosso:
- Wilmar Peres de Faria (until 15 March)
- Carlos Bezerra (from 15 March)
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Ramez Tebet (until 15 March)
- Marcelo Miranda Soares (from 15 March)
- Minas Gerais:
- Hélio Garcia (until 15 March)
- Newton Cardoso (from 15 March)
- Pará:
- Jader Barbalho (until 15 March)
- Hélio Gueiros (from 15 March)
- Paraíba:
- Milton Bezerra Cabral (until 15 March)
- Tarcísio Burity (from 15 March)
- Paraná:
- João Elísio Ferraz de Campos (until 15 March)
- Alvaro Dias (from 15 March)
- Pernambuco:
- Gustavo Krause (until 15 March)
- Miguel Arraes (from 15 March)
- Piauí:
- Bona Medeiros (until 15 March)
- Alberto Silva (from 15 March)
- Rio de Janeiro:
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Radir Pereira de Araujo (until 15 March)
- Geraldo José Ferreira de Melo (from 15 March)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Jair de Oliveira Soares (until 15 March)
- Pedro Simon (from 15 March)
- Rondônia:
- Ângelo Angelin (until 15 March)
- Jerônimo Garcia de Santana (from 15 March)
- Santa Catarina:
- Esperidião Amin (until 15 March)
- Pedro Ivo Campos (from 15 March)
- São Paulo:
- André Franco Montoro (until 15 March)
- Orestes Quércia (from 15 March)
- Sergipe:
- João Alves Filho (until 15 March)
- Antônio Carlos Valadares (from 15 March)
Vice governors[edit]
- Acre: Edison Simão Cadaxo (from 15 March)
- Alagoas: Moacir Andrade (from 15 March)
- Amazonas: Vivaldo Barros Frota (from 15 March)
- Bahia:
- Edvaldo de Oliveira Flores (until 15 March)
- Nilo Moraes Coelho (from 15 March)
- Ceará:
- José Adauto Bezerra (until 15 March)
- Francisco Castelo de Castro (from 15 March)
- Espírito Santo:
- José Moraes (until 15 March)
- Carlos Alberto Batista da Cunha (from 15 March)
- Goiás: Joaquim Domingos Roriz (from 15 March)
- Maranhão:
- João Rodolfo Ribeiro Gonçalves (until 15 March)
- João Alberto Souza (from 15 March)
- Mato Grosso: Edison de Oliveira (from 15 March)
- Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Vacant (until 15 March)
- George Takimoto (from 15 March)
- Minas Gerais: Júnia Marise de Azeredo Coutinho (from 15 March)
- Pará:
- Laércio Dias Franco (until 15 March)
- Hermínio Calvinho Filho (from 15 March)
- Paraíba:
- Antônio da Costa Gomes (until 15 March)
- Vacant (from 15 March)
- Paraná: Ary Veloso Queiroz (from 15 March)
- Pernambuco: Carlos Wilson Rocha de Queirós Campos (from 15 March)
- Piauí: Lucídio Portela Nunes (from 15 March)
- Rio de Janeiro:
- Darcy Ribeiro (until 15 March)
- Francisco Amaral (from 15 March)
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- Vacant (until 15 March)
- Garibaldi Alves (from 15 March)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- Cláudio Ênio Strassburger (until 15 March)
- Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (from 15 March)
- Rondônia: Orestes Muniz Filho (from 15 March)
- Santa Catarina:
- Victor Fontana (until 15 March)
- Casildo João Maldaner (from 15 March)
- São Paulo:
- Vacant (until 15 March)
- Almino Afonso (from 15 March)
- Sergipe:
- Antônio Carlos Valadares (until 15 March)
- Benedito de Figueiredo (from 15 March)
Events[edit]
February[edit]
- 1 February: The National Constituent Assembly is installed by the President of the Supreme Federal Court, José Carlos Moreira Alves.[1]
- 25 February: The Central Bank of Brazil decides to intervene in banks in the states of Maranhão, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina.[2]
June[edit]
- 12 June: President José Sarney announces the launch of the Bresser Plan, which freezes rents and wages.[3]
July[edit]
- July 26: Around 70 people are killed, after a crash between two tourist buses and a Voyage car on BR-040, which connects Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais.[4]
August[edit]
- 1 August: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is chosen as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the Workers' Party.[5]
September[edit]
- 13 September: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.[6][7]
December[edit]
- 7 December: Brasília is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.[8]
Births[edit]
January[edit]
- January 10: César Cielo, swimmer[9]
- January 15: Jesus Luz, model and DJ
March[edit]
- March 20: Jô, footballer
April[edit]
- April 22: David Luiz, footballer
June[edit]
- June 6: Cássio, footballer
- June 25: Hugo Bonemer, actor
July[edit]
- July 23: Luis Gustavo, footballer
October[edit]
- October 11: Andressa Urach, model & reality television star
December[edit]
- December 13: Weverton, footballer
- December 31: Maiara & Maraisa, musical duo
Deaths[edit]
February[edit]
- February 2: Carlos Castilho, footballer (b. 1927)
August[edit]
- August 17: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet and writer (b. 1902)
September[edit]
- September 18: Golbery do Couto e Silva, general and politician (b. 1911)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1987 in Brazil.
- ^ Aberto o Congresso constituinte (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de fevereiro de 1987).
- ^ BC intervém em 5 bancos estaduais (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (26 de fevereiro de 1987).
- ^ Sarney dá segundo choque; preços e salários congelados por 90 dias (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (13 de junho de 1987).
- ^ Choque entre ônibus mata 70 em Minas (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (27 de julho de 1987).
- ^ PT antecipa a corrida para suceder Sarney (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (2 de agosto de 1987).
- ^ The Radiological accident in Goiânia (PDF). Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency. 1988. ISBN 92-0-129088-8.
- ^ Foderaro, Lisa (8 July 2010). "Columbia Scientists Prepare for a Threat: A Dirty Bomb". The New York Times.
- ^ Brasília vira patrimônio da humanidade (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (8 de dezembro de 1987).
- ^ "César Cielo Filho". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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