1953 in Brazil

Events in the year 1953 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas
• Vice President: Café Filho

Governors

• Alagoas: Arnon de Mello
• Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
• Bahia: Régis Pacheco
• Ceará: Raul Barbosa
• Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
• Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
• Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Juscelino Kubitschek
• Pará: Zacarias de Assumpção
• Paraíba: José Américo de Almeida
• Paraná: Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
• Pernambuco: Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque
• Piauí: Pedro Freitas
• Rio de Janeiro: Amaral Peixoto
• Rio Grande do Norte: Silvio Piza Pedrosa
• Rio Grande do Sul: Ildo Meneghetti
• Santa Catarina: Irineu Bornhausen
• São Paulo: Lucas Nogueira Garcez
• Sergipe: Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez

Vice governors

• Alagoas: Antônio Guedes de Miranda
• Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
• Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
• Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
• Maranhão: Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
• Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros
• Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
• Paraíba: João Fernandes de Lima
• Piauí: Tertuliano Milton Brandão
• Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda
• Rio Grande do Norte: Vacant
• São Paulo: Erlindo Salzano
• Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo

Events

• Date Unknown: JBS Group, a worldwide meat processing brand, was founded in Goiás.^[1]

January

• January 20: Lima Barreto's film O Cangaceiro is released in cinemas.^[2]

March

• March 23: The Brazilian branch of the German automaker Volkswagen is established in São Bernardo do Campo.^[3]

April

• April 1: The Brazilian football team is defeated 3-2 by Paraguay at the Estadio Nacional, Lima, to finish second in the 1953 South American Championship.^[4]

June

• June 30: The naval destroyer escort USS Pennewill (DE-175) is transferred from the United States to Brazilian ownership, taking on the new name Bertioga (BE–1).^[5]

July

• July 25: The Ministry of Health is created.^[6][7]

September

• September 27: RecordTV is launched in São Paulo.^[8]

October

• October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.^[9][10]

Births

March

• 3 March: Zico, footballer and coach

April

• 22 April: Lucinha Turnbull, singer, composer and guitarist

May

• 4 May: Lulu Santos, singer and guitarist
• 23 May: Armandinho, composer and singer

Deaths

March

• 20 March: Graciliano Ramos, writer (born 1892)

November

• 15 November: Jorge de Lima, writer (born 1893)
• 2 December – Miguel Osório de Almeida, physician and scientist (born 1890)^[11]