1953 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1953 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Arnon de Mello
- Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Régis Pacheco
- Ceará: Raul Barbosa
- Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
- Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais: Juscelino Kubitschek
- Pará: Zacarias de Assumpção
- Paraíba: José Américo de Almeida
- Paraná: Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
- Pernambuco: Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque
- Piauí: Pedro Freitas
- Rio de Janeiro: Amaral Peixoto
- Rio Grande do Norte: Silvio Piza Pedrosa
- Rio Grande do Sul: Ildo Meneghetti
- Santa Catarina: Irineu Bornhausen
- São Paulo: Lucas Nogueira Garcez
- Sergipe: Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez
Vice governors
- Alagoas: Antônio Guedes de Miranda
- Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
- Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
- Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
- Maranhão: Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
- Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros
- Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
- Paraíba: João Fernandes de Lima
- Piauí: Tertuliano Milton Brandão
- Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda
- Rio Grande do Norte: Vacant
- São Paulo: Erlindo Salzano
- Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo
Events
- Date Unknown: JBS Group, a worldwide meat processing brand, was founded in Goiás.
January
- January 20: Lima Barreto's film O Cangaceiro is released in cinemas.
March
- March 23: The Brazilian branch of the German automaker Volkswagen is established in São Bernardo do Campo.
April
- April 1: The Brazilian football team is defeated 3-2 by Paraguay at the Estadio Nacional, Lima, to finish second in the 1953 South American Championship.
June
- June 30: The naval destroyer escort USS Pennewill (DE-175) is transferred from the United States to Brazilian ownership, taking on the new name Bertioga (BE–1).
July
- July 25: The Ministry of Health is created.
September
- September 27: RecordTV is launched in São Paulo.
October
- October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.
Births
March
April
- 22 April: Lucinha Turnbull, singer, composer and guitarist
May
- 4 May: Lulu Santos, singer and guitarist
- 23 May: Armandinho, composer and singer
Deaths
March
- 20 March: Graciliano Ramos, writer (born 1892)
November
- 15 November: Jorge de Lima, writer (born 1893)
- 2 December – Miguel Osório de Almeida, physician and scientist (born 1890)