1967 in Brazil
Events in the year 1967 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government
 President: 
Marshal Castelo Branco (until 14 March)
Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (from 15 March)
 Vice-President:
José Maria Alkmin (until 14 March)
Pedro Aleixo (from 15 March)

Governors 
 Acre: Vacant
 Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho 
 Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
 Bahia: Lomanto Junior then Luís Viana Filho 
 Ceará: Plácido Castelo
 Espírito Santo: 
Rubens Rangel (until 31 January)
 Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho (from 31 January)
 Goiás: Otávio Lage
 Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima 
 Maranhão: Jose Sarney 
 Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian 
 Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva 
 Pará: Alacid Nunes 
 Paraíba: João Agripino Maia 
 Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel 
 Pernambuco: 
Paulo Pessoa Guerra (until 31 January)
 Nilo Coelho (from 31 January)
 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 (from 31 January)
 Bahia: 
Orlando Moscoso (until 15 March)
 Jutahy Magalhães (from 15 March)
 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 (from 9 March)
 São Paulo: Hilário Torloni 
 Sergipe: Vacant

Events

January
18 January: The National Congress of Brazil rejects an amendment that would restore direct elections for President and Vice President of the Republic.
 24 January: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco promulgates the Sixth Brazilian Constitution, which replaces the Fifth Constitution.
 26 January: President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva visits U.S. president Lyndon Johnson at the White House.

February
 9 February:  President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco signs the Press Law, where news, radio, and television stations are heavily regulated.
 13 February: The Cruzeiro Novo, equivalent to one thousand old Cruzeiros, begins to circulate.

March
 1 March: Police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór extermination camps.
 15 March: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva is sworn in as the 27th President of Brazil.
 18 March: Floods and landslides hit Caraguatatuba, São Paulo.

July
 18 July: Former President of Brazil, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, dies in a plane crash in Fortaleza, Ceará.

September
 6-13 September: King Olav V of Norway visits Brazil.
September-October: A large fire hits the Rio Doce State Park in Minas Gerais. Around 9,000 hectares (approximately one third of the reserve) were consumed by fire and 12 people died. This would be the second largest forest fire in Brazil in terms of number of fatalities; second only to the fire in Paraná in 1963, which left 110 dead.

December
 5 December: The National Indigenous People Foundation (FUNAI) is created.

Births

January
 8 January: Guilherme Fontes, actor

March
 6 March: Sérgio Pereira Couto, Portuguese-Brazilian writer

July
 1 July: Marisa Monte, singer

August
 1 August: José Padilha, film director, producer and screenwriter

September
September 28: Roberto Santucci, filmmaker

November
 5 November: Marcelo D2, rapper 

 13 November: 
 Vitor Negrete, mountaineer (died 2006)
 Ricardo Nunes, politician

December 
 14 December: Palhinha, footballer

Deaths

February
 26 February: Octacílio, footballer (born 1909)

July
 18 July: Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, first president during the Brazilian military dictatorship (born 1897)
 19 July: Luz del Fuego, ballerina, naturist and feminist (born 1917 as Dora Vivacqua)

November
 19 November: João Guimarães Rosa, novelist (born 1908)

See also 
1967 in Brazilian football
1967 in Brazilian television

References

External links

 
1960s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
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