2003 in Brazil

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Events in the year 2003 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Acre: Jorge Viana
Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
Amapa: Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
Bahia:
- Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
- Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
Ceará:
- Beni Veras (until 1 January)
- Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
- José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
- Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
Goiás: Marconi Perillo
Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
Minas Gerais:
- Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
- Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
Pará:
- Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
- Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
Paraná:
- Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
- Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos
Piauí:
- Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
- Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro:
- Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
- Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
- Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
- Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
- Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
- Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
Santa Catarina:
- Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
- Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe:
- Albano Franco (until 1 January)
- João Filho (from 1 January)
Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)

Vice governors

Acre:
- Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
- Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Alagoas:
- Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
- Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
Amapá:
- Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
Amazonas:
- Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
- Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
- Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
- Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho
Maranhão: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso: Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
- Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
Minas Gerais:
- Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
- Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
Pará:
- Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
- Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
Paraná:
- Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
- Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
Piauí:
- Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
- Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
- Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
Rondônia:
- Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
- Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
Roraima:
- Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
- Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
São Paulo:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
Sergipe:
- Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
Tocantins:
- João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
- Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)

Events

January

January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.^[1]
January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself.^[2]
January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.^[3]

June

June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil.^[4]

August

August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.^[5]^[6]^[7]
August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.^[8]

September

September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. ^[9]

October

October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program.^[10]

Births

June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player

Deaths

January

January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)

March

March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)

April

April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)

May

May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)

June

June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)

July

July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)

August

August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
August 19: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)

References

^ "Presidente Lula assume o país diante de 200 mil pessoas. Posse foi marcada por festa popular". revistaepoca.globo.com (in Portuguese). Época Online. January 1, 2003. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ Ribeiro, Marcelle (2011-04-11). "Em 2003, ex-aluno feriu oito pessoas em escola, antes de se matar; em carta, atirador de Realengo elogiou o crime". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-07.
^ The Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program) : The Brazilian experience, Food and Agriculture Organization, published in 2011.
'^ AM registra terremoto 'imperceptível (primeira página do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de junho de 2003).
^ Ghattas, Kim (11 August 2007). "Mixed feelings over UN Iraq role". BBC News. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ United Nations (21 August 2003). "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
^ United Nations (19 August 2004). "UN wrestling with security questions one year after Baghdad bombing – Annan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
^ Foguete brasileiro explode e mata 16 (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (23 de agosto de 2003).
^ "GRAMMY LATINO 2003: Veja lista de premiados e saiba como foi o evento - 02/09/2003 -". musica.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
^ Governo unifica os programas sociais sem garantir verba (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de outubro de 2003).

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Acre: Jorge Viana
Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
Amapa: Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
Amazonas: Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
Bahia:
- Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
- Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
Ceará:
- Beni Veras (until 1 January)
- Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
- José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
- Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
Goiás: Marconi Perillo
Maranhão: José Reinaldo Tavares
Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul: José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
Minas Gerais:
- Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
- Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
Pará:
- Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
- Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
Paraná:
- Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
- Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos
Piauí:
- Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
- Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro:
- Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
- Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
- Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
- Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
- Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
- Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela
Santa Catarina:
- Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
- Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe:
- Albano Franco (until 1 January)
- João Filho (from 1 January)
Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)

Vice governors

Acre:
- Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
- Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Alagoas:
- Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
- Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
Amapá:
- Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
Amazonas:
- Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
- Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
Espírito Santo:
- Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
- Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho
Maranhão: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso: Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
Mato Grosso do Sul:
- Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
- Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
Minas Gerais:
- Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
- Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
Pará:
- Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
- Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
Paraíba: Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
Paraná:
- Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
- Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
Piauí:
- Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
- Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Norte:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
Rio Grande do Sul:
- Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
- Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
Rondônia:
- Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
- Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
Roraima:
- Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
- Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
São Paulo:
- Vacant (until 1 January)
- Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
Sergipe:
- Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
- Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
Tocantins:
- João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
- Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)

Events

January

January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.^[1]
January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself.^[2]
January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.^[3]

June

June 20: An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil.^[4]

August

August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.^[5]^[6]^[7]
August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.^[8]

September

September 2: Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. ^[9]

October

October 20: President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program.^[10]

Births

June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player

Deaths

January

January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)

March

March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)

April

April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)

May

May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)

June

June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)

July

July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)

August

August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
August 19: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)

References

^ "Presidente Lula assume o país diante de 200 mil pessoas. Posse foi marcada por festa popular". revistaepoca.globo.com (in Portuguese). Época Online. January 1, 2003. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ Ribeiro, Marcelle (2011-04-11). "Em 2003, ex-aluno feriu oito pessoas em escola, antes de se matar; em carta, atirador de Realengo elogiou o crime". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-07-07.
^ The Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program) : The Brazilian experience, Food and Agriculture Organization, published in 2011.
'^ AM registra terremoto 'imperceptível (primeira página do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de junho de 2003).
^ Ghattas, Kim (11 August 2007). "Mixed feelings over UN Iraq role". BBC News. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ United Nations (21 August 2003). "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
^ United Nations (19 August 2004). "UN wrestling with security questions one year after Baghdad bombing – Annan". United Nations. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
^ Foguete brasileiro explode e mata 16 (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (23 de agosto de 2003).
^ "GRAMMY LATINO 2003: Veja lista de premiados e saiba como foi o evento - 02/09/2003 -". musica.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
^ Governo unifica os programas sociais sem garantir verba (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de outubro de 2003).

v t e Years in Brazil (1822–present)
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21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

v t e 2003 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e 2003 in Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
North America	Mexico
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies not included. Semi-autonomous territories are in italics.

v t e Years in Brazil (1822–present)
19th century	1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

v t e 2003 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e 2003 in Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
North America	Mexico
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies not included. Semi-autonomous territories are in italics.

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Year of Constitution: 1988

2003 in Brazil
Years 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Flag
27 stars (1992–present)
Timeline of Brazilian history
History of Brazil (1985–present)
Year of Constitution: 1988

2003 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Vice governors

Events

January

June

August

September

October

Births

Deaths

January

March

April

May

June

July

August

References

See also

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Vice governors

Events

January

June

August

September

October

Births

Deaths

January

March

April

May

June

July

August

References

See also