1968 in Brazil

Events of the year 1968 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva
• Vice-President: Pedro Aleixo

Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
• Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
• Bahia: Luís Viana Filho
• Ceará: Plácido Castelo
• Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
• Goiás: Otávio Lage
• Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima
• Maranhão: José Sarney
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
• Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
• Pará: Alacid Nunes
• Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
• Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
• Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
• Piauí: Helvídio Nunes
• Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
• Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
• Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
• Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
• São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
• Sergipe: Lourival Baptista

Vice governors

• Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
• Amazonas: Rui Arajuo
• Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
• Ceará: Humberto Ellery
• Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
• Goiás: Osires Teixeira
• Maranhão: Antonio Jorge Dino
• Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
• Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
• Pará: João Renato Franco
• Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias
• Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
• Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
• Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
• Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
• Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
• Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
• São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
• Sergipe: Vacant

Events

March

• 28 March: A 16 year-old student named Edson Luís de Lima Souto, is killed after being shot in the chest by a police officer. This was during a protest between students and the Military Police at the Calabouço restaurant, in the UNE building, in Rio de Janeiro.^[1][2]

April

• 5 April: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva, signs an act, prohibiting the functioning of the leftist political movement, known as Frente Ampla.^[3]
• 20 April: A bomb attack destroys the headquarters entrance of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in São Paulo. ^[4]

May

• 15 May: A bomb explodes at the door of the São Paulo Stock Exchange.^[5]
• 26 May: Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini and his team perform the first heart transplant in Latin America.^[6]
• 28 May: A 23rd star representing the state of Acre, established six years before, is added to the flag of Brazil.^[7]

June

• 26 June: The Passeata dos Cem Mil (March of the One Hundred Thousand), a demonstration organized by the student movement against the military regime, takes place in the center of Rio de Janeiro.^[8][9]

July

• 5 July: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva bans street demonstrations across the country.^[10]
• 13 July: Martha Vasconcellos becomes the second Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, in the pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.^[11]

November

• 1-11 November: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom arrives in Brazil for an eleven-day visit.^[12][13][14]
• 7 November: The new headquarters of the São Paulo Museum of Art on Avenida Paulista is inaugurated with the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.^[15]

December

• 13 December: President Costa e Silva issues Institucional Act Number 5, giving the President powers to intervene on local governments, suspend Congress, ban political meetings, as well as censor the press, music and film.^[16][17]
• 16 December: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested, after Secretary of Public Security of Guanabara, General Luís de França Oliveira, starts one of the biggest attacks against crime.^[18]
• 30 December: The Secretariat of the National Defense Council publishes a list of impeached federal deputies.^[19]

Births

January

• 3 January: Matheus Nachtergaele, actor and director
• 7 January: Cazé Peçanha, television host
• 12 January: Mauro Silva, former footballer

July

• 20 July: Carlos Saldanha, director

November

• 18 November: Luizianne Lins, politician

December

• 31 December: Luciano Szafir, actor

Deaths

April

• 4 April: Assis Chateaubriand, entrepreneur (b. 1892)

October

• 13 October: Manuel Bandeira, poet (b. 1886)