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Events in the year 1970 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: General Emílio Garrastazu Médici
- Vice President: General Augusto Rademaker
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 (until 15 March)
- Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas (starting 15 March)
- Maranhão:
- Jose Sarney (until 14 May)
- Antônio Jorge Dino (from 14 May)
- 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 (until 14 May)
- João Turíbio Monteiro de Santana (14 May-15 May)
- João Clímaco d'Almeida (from 15 May)
- 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 (until 14 May)
- Wolney Leal de Melo (14 May-4 June)
- João de Andrade Garcez (from 4 June)
Vice governors
- Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
- Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal
- Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
- Ceará: Humberto Ellery
- Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
- Goiás: Osires Teixeira
- Maranhão:
- Antonio Jorge Dino (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
- Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
- Pará: João Renato Franco
- Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias (from 12 September)
- Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
- Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
- Piauí:
- João Clímaco d'Almeida (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
- Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
- Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
- Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
- São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
- Sergipe:
- Manoel Paulo Vasconcelos (until 14 May)
- Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
Events
January
- January 26: After Leila Diniz's controversial interview to O Pasquim, the government signs Decree-Law Nº 1.077/1970, which censors material "subversive of morals and good customs"[1][2]
March
- March 11: Japanese consul-general in São Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi is kidnapped by the leftist guerrilla group Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária.[3]
- March 14: Five political prisoners are released in exchange for the release of Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi.[4]
- March 15: Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi is released in the early evening, 97 hours and 45 minutes after being kidnapped by members of the VPR.[3][5]
- March 25: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici signs a decree-law, providing for the expansion of the Brazilian territorial sea from 12 to 200 nautical miles.[6]
June
- June 11: West German ambassador Ehrenfried von Holleben is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro, by the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária and Ação Libertadora Nacional.[7][8]
- June 21: Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. It is the third time Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup.[9][10]
July
- July 1: Four Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária (VPR) members unsuccessfully attempt to hijack a Cruzeiro do Sul plane with 34 passengers and 7 crew on board. The aircraft was stormed and the hijackers arrested.[11]
- July 31: Brazilian consul Aloísio Mares Dias Gomide is kidnapped in Montevideo, Uruguay, by the Tupamaros; an Uruguayan urban guerrilla group.[12]
November
December
- December 7: Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped by the Ação Libertadora Nacional in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.[14][15]
Births
January
- January 1 – João Miguel, actor
- January 20 – Andrucha Waddington, director and producer
April
- April 18 – Patrícia Bastos, singer
- April 20 – Adriano Moraes, rodeo performer
May
- May 22 – Pedro Diniz, racing driver
June
- June 7 –
- Ronaldo da Costa, long-distance runner[16]
- Cafu, footballer[17]
- June 8 – Seu Jorge, Musical artist
August
- August 11 – Daniella Perez, actress (died 1992)
- August 27 – Edinho, footballer and manager
September
- September 4 – Igor Cavalera, drummer
- September 19 – Sonny Anderson, footballer
Deaths
February
- February 20 – João Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
See also
References
- ↑ André Bernardo (2022-06-04). "Leila Diniz: os 50 anos da morte da atriz que desafiou conservadorismo e foi perseguida pela ditadura" (in Brazilian Portuguese). BBC News Brasil. Archived from the original on 2022-10-26. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ↑ Emílio Gaspar Médici e Alfredo Buzaid (1970-01-26). "DECRETO-LEI Nº 1.077" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Presidência da Repúblia do Brasil. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - 1 2 Skidmore, Thomas (8 March 1990). The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964–1985. pp. 117–118. ISBN 9780195063165. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ "Os cinco presos em vôo para o México" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (15 de março de 1970).
- ↑ "Posto em liberdade o consul do Japão" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (16 de março de 1970).
- ↑ "Brasil amplia seu limite maritimo" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (26 de março de 1970).
- ↑ Baumann, Carol (July 1973). The Diplomatic Kidnappings: A Revolutionary Tactic of Urban Terrorism. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9024714664.
- ↑ "Brasil informa Bonn: tudo para salvar von Holleben" (página 5 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (13 de junho de 1970).
- ↑ "Great Sporting Moments: Brazil 4 Italy 1, 1970 World Cup final". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ "Ele voltam amanhã com a Taça" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (22 de junho de 1970).
- ↑ "O primeiro sequestro de avião frustrado no País" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (2 de julho de 1970).
- ↑ "Sequestrado consul do Brasil: Uruguai" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (1 de agosto de 1970).
- ↑ "Trinta milhões vão hoje às urnas" (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (15 de novembro de 1970).
- ↑ "LEFTISTS IN BRAZIL SEIZE SWISS ENVOY". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ↑ "O embaixador da Suiça é sequestrado no Rio" (páginas 1 e 4 do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (8 de dezembro de 1970).
- ↑ Ronaldo da Costa at World Athletics
- ↑ 1970 in Brazil – FIFA competition record (archived)
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