Events in the year 1924 in Brazil.
Incumbents edit
Federal government edit
Governors edit
- Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima (till 12 June); Pedro da Costa Rego (from 12 June)
- Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro (until 30 October); Raimundo Rodrigues Barbosa (30 October - 2 December); Alfredo Sá
- Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra, then Góis Calmon
- Ceará:
- till 12 July: Ildefonso Albano
- from 12 July: José Moreira da Rocha
- Goiás:
- till March 31: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- March 31 - April 25: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
- from April 25: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Godofredo Mendes Viana
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa, then Estêvão Alves Correia
- Minas Gerais:
- till 4 August: Raul Soares
- 4 August - 21 December: Olegário Maciel
- from 21 December: Fernando de Mello Viana
- Pará: Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
- Paraíba:
- till 22 October: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
- from 22 October: João Suassuna
- Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
- Pernambuco: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto
- Piauí:
- till 1 July: João Luís Ferreira
- from 1 July: Matias Olímpio de Melo
- Rio Grande do Norte: José Augusto Bezerra de Medeiros
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina: Hercílio Luz (until 20 October)
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors edit
Events edit
- Colégio Campos Salles, private school is founded.
- 4 May – Among competitors at the Summer Olympics are eight Brazilian athletes, two rowers and a sport shooter. The country does not win any medals.[1]
- 5-28 July - Military revolt in São Paulo.[2]
Arts and culture edit
Films edit
- Gigolete, directed by Vittorio Verga and starring Augusto Aníbal
- O Trem da Morte, starring Arturo Carrari
- Paulo e Virginia, directed by Francisco de Almeida Fleming
Books edit
Births edit
- 25 April – Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, businessman and impresario (died 2010)
- 13 May – Sérgio Hingst, actor (died 2004)
- 4 June – Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho, biologist and primatologist, after whom Coimbra Filho's titi is named after him. (died 2016)[3]
- 13 August
- Helena Meirelles, guitarist and composer (died 2005)
- Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, cardinal (died 2019)
- 10 October – Lídia Mattos, actress (died 2013)
- 24 October – Aziz Ab'Sáber, environmentalist (died 2012)
Deaths edit
- 31 March – Nilo Peçanha, politician, former President and Vice-President (born 1867)[4]
- 21 May
- Blessed Adílio Daronch, student (born 1908; shot and killed by revolutionaries)
- Blessed Manuel Gómez González, missionary (born 1877)
- 20 October – Hercílio Luz, politician (born 1860)[5]
References edit
- ^ Official Olympic Reports Archived 22 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fausto, Boris; Brakel, Arthur (1999). A Concise History of Brazil. Cambridge University Press. p. 184. ISBN 0-521-56526-X.
- ^ Kobayashi, Shuji; Langguth, Alfredo (1999). "A new species of titi monkey, Callicebus Thomas, from north-eastern Brazil (Primates, Cebidae)". Revta bras. Zool: 531–551.
- ^ GIFFIN, Donald W. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug., 1964), pp. 437–439. Review of TINOCO, Brígido. A vida de Nilo Peçanha. Coleção Documentos Brasileiros, Livraria José Olympio Editora, RJ, 1962. (visited 3 September 2008)
- ^ "biography" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 9 September 1999. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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