1944 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1944 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January - The former Royal Military Academy expends into the city of Resende.
- 2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.
- September - Brazilian air-land forces go into action in Italy.[1]
- 31 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.
- date unknown
- The Banco Nacional is founded in São Paulo.
- Getúlio Vargas allocated an area of 4 million square meters near Santa Maria for the purpose of building an aerodrome. Santa Maria Airport opens the following year.
Arts and culture
Books
Films
- Corações Sem Piloto
- Berlim na Batucada
- É Proibido Sonhar
- O Brasileiro João de Souza
Music
- Camargo Guarnieri - Symphony no 1
Births
- 8 February - Sebastião Salgado, photojournalist
- 19 June - Chico Buarque, singer, dramatist, writer and poet
- 2 August - Naná Vasconcelos, jazz musician
- 18 October - Nelson Freire, pianist
- 9 November - Torquato Neto, journalist, poet and songwriter (died 1972)
- 13 December - Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ("Léo"), comics creator[2]
Deaths
- 29 April - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal 1915–17 and 1925–26 (born 1851)
See also
References
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