1970 in Brazil
Events in the year 1970 in Brazil.
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| Timeline of Brazilian history |
| Brazilian military government |
| Year of Constitution: 1967 |
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:
- until 14 May: Helvídio Nunes
- 14 May-15 May: João Turíbio Monteiro de Santana
- from 15 May: João Clímaco d'Almeida
- 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:
- until 14 May: Lourival Baptista
- 14 May-4 June: Wolney Leal de Melo
- from 4 June: João de Andrade Garcez
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
- March 11 - Japanese consul-general in São Paulo Nobuo Okuchi is kidnapped by the leftist guerrilla group Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária.[1]
- March 15 - Nobuo Okuchi is ransomed by the Brazilian government and released in exchange for five political prisoners.[1]
- June 11 - West German ambassador Ehrenfried von Holleben is kidnapped by the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária and by the Ação Libertadora Nacional.[2]
- June 21 - Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 at the 1970 FIFA World Cup Final in Mexico.[3] It is the third time Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup.
- December 1 - 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.[4]
Births
- April 20 – Adriano Moraes, rodeo performer
- June 7 – Ronaldo da Costa, long-distance runner[5]
- June 7 – Cafu, footballer[6]
Deaths
- February 20 – João Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
References
- Skidmore, Thomas (8 March 1990). The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964–1985. pp. 117–118. ISBN 9780195063165. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- Baumann, Carol (July 1973). The Diplomatic Kidnappings: A Revolutionary Tactic of Urban Terrorism. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9024714664.
- "Great Sporting Moments: Brazil 4 Italy 1, 1970 World Cup final". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- "LEFTISTS IN BRAZIL SEIZE SWISS ENVOY". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- 1970 in Brazil at World Athletics
- 1970 in Brazil – FIFA competition record (archived)
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