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)