A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
359: ZOO aquarium
The Zoo in Belo Horizonte, located at Lake Pampulha, attracts many visitors. They admire the gorillas, monkeys, elephants, giraffes, lions, and many more. Since 2010, they also can visit another part that is focused on freshwater marine life, which represent part of the São Francisco River, Brazil’s third largest river. The river, nicknamed ‘Velho Chico (‘Old Frank’)’, originates from a spring in the state of Minas Gerais and ends in the Atlantic Ocean at the border between the states of Alagoas and Sergipe. The river is heavily polluted, and big efforts are made to clean that mess. Gradually, the river becomes indeed cleaner. One of the Zoo aquariums is filled with 450 thousand liters of water, and hosts a number of fish. The fish in the picture is swimming in that giant fish tank, called ‘São Francisco tank’.
Dia do Lavador/ Manobrista de Carros (Belo Horizonte – MG)
(Car washer/ Valet).
BRAZILIAN HISTORY:
1630 Dutch expelled from Fernando de Noronha
1909 Constitution of Banco de Crédito Hipotecário e Agrícola do Estado de São Paulo (Banespa)
1914 Death of poet Cassiano Ricardo
1943 Foundation of Instituto Riograndense de Contabilidade (Accountant Institute of Rio Grande do Sul)
1957 Brazil sent troops to Suez Canal
1971 Arrival of seventy political prisoners in Chile
The prisoners had been exchanged for the release of the kidnapped Swiss ambassador.
1974 General Ernesto Geisel elected president of Brazil, via indirect elections.
1976 Start of the production of Volkswagen vehicles in Taubaté (SP)
1977 Death of writer Anaïs Nin
1993 Advertiser Geraldo Alondo Filho released after 36 days being kidnapped.
Geraldo was kidnapped on 8 December 1992.
2007 Arrival of the first five hundred men of the Força Nacional de Segurança (National Security Forces) in Rio de Janeiro.
2008 Vice-president José Alencar interim-president of Brazil
The vice-president replaced president Lula when he was traveling abroad. During eight years of Lula’s double mandate, José Alencar was president for 503 days in total.
(International Lions’ Club). The day refers to the birth of the founder of Lions, Melvin Jones (1879-1961). He founded Lions in 1917. Lions Club Brazil was founded in 1952.
Dia do Tratado de Madri
(Treaty of Madrid). This treaty was signed in 1750 by both the Portuguese and the Spanish empires. The treaty replaced the 1494 Treaty of Tordesilhas, which divided the Southern American continent in a Spanish and a Portuguese part. However, the Portuguese expanded westward significantly. The new treaty allowed these expansions, based on the Latin law: Uti possidetis, ita possideatis (who owns by fact, owns by right). The Treaty of Madrid was replaced by the Treaty of El Pardo in 1761.
BRAZILIAN HISTORY:
1824 Arrival of the Dutch vessel ‘Argo’, carrying German migrants, in Rio de Janeiro.
1825 Death of Frei Caneca by execution in Recife (PE)
1890 Recognition of the United States of Brazil by Mexico.
1913 Foundation of Nacional Futebol Clube (AM)
1937 Institution of Serviço de Radiodifusão Educativa (Educative Radio Broadcast).
1937 Creation of Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional by Lei nº 378 (Artº 46)
The SPHAN, now IPHAN, is responsible for the administration of Brazilian heritage.
1937 Creation of Museu Nacional de Belas Artes by Lei nº 378 cria (Artº 48)
Already in 1808, Portuguese king João VI brought part of the Portuguese collection when he arrived in Rio de Janeiro. The Museum of Fine Arts, inaugurated in 1938, is located in Avenida Rio Branco and hosts more than twenty thousand art pieces.
1970 Câmara dos Deputados (Chamber of Deputies) started to commit preventive censure on books, magazines, and journals.
1971 Presidente Emílio Garrastazu Médici signed the decree that expelled 68 Brazilians.
1972 Mequinho became the first Brazilian grandmaster in chess.
Henrique Costa Mecking (1952) was in the Seventies on of the strongest players born in the western hemisphere.
1976 Inauguration of hydro-electric power station Paradão (AP) by President Ernesto Geisel
1982 Death of movie director Marcel Camus
1996 Concentrated movements of UFOs observed in south Minas Gerais by American satellites.
Fantástico 17-03-1996
2002 Acelino ‘Popó’ Freitas defeated Cuban Joel Casamayor and gained the WBA boxing world title, in addition of the WBO title.
1853 Inauguration of a steamboat service between Barra (Manaus) and Belém.
1860 Inauguration of Ponte do Imperador.
The inauguration marked the arrival of emperor Dom Pedro II in the province of Sergipe Del Rey. The Ponte do Imperador was especially constructed to facilitate the arrival of the imperial steamboat ‘Apa’.
1918 Official registration of the name of the church ‘Igreja Assembléia de Deus’
1925 Inauguration of electric tram lines in Guarujá (SP)
1961 Creation of Parque Nacional das Emas (GO)
1966 Start of a rain shower in Rio, which lasted 72 hours uninterrupted.
State of emergency was declared. More than 200 people died.
1971 Death of medium Zé Arigó
1972 Caetano Veloso returned from exile
1983 Foundation of Mancha Verde, an organized supporters club of Palmeiras
1985 Start of Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro.
The mega event lasted 10 days with shows by many internationally famous musicians
2001 Big fire during the recording of the program “Xuxa Park” wounded 26 people
2006 Launch of Google Acadêmico (Academics) in Brazil
2008 Creation of Federal Universities in Bagé and Porto Alegre (RS)
President Lula sanctioned the projects.
1787 Ensign Antônio José da Costa followed his travel in the direction of Lages, crossing the Imaruí River (SC).
Antônio commanded a group of 24 people who discovered the plains and cleared a path to Lages, in Santa Catarina.
1864 Brazilian aviator Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão became one of the first men to fly in a balloon.
1946 Birth of Brazilian-American student and teacher Stuart Angel Jones, son of Zuzu Angel
Stuart participated in the armed resistance (MR-8) against the dictatorship and was captured in 1971. He was reportedly tortured, and according to a witness, had died after his mouth was attached to a jeep’s exhaust pipe and dragged over the courtyard subsequently. His mother Zuzu died, under suspicious circumstances, in a car crash in 1976.
HOMAGES TO STUART AND ZUZU ANGEL
Chico Buarque – Cálice – Clip Ditadura
Zuzu Angel – Angélica
1900 Death of Brazilian pioneer José Antônio Pereira (1825-1900), founder of the city of Campo Grande (MS)
1996 Death of Brazilian sociologist Ênio Silveira (1925-1996)
2003 Death of actor and comedian Jorge Lafond (1953-2003).
2003 Introduction of a new Código Civil brasileiro (Brazilian Civil Code), approved by the Congress in September 2001.
