DAY OF: Dia do Juiz de Menores (Juvenile judge) BRAZILIAN HISTORY: 1558 Installation of Mem de Sá as Governor-general of Brazil 1615 French colonists ousted from Maranhão by the Portuguese. 1898 Brazilian politician Luís Carlos Prestes became Secretary-General of the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (Brazilian Communist Party). 1938 Nationwide broadcast of the radio program ‘A Hora do Brasil’. The program was later renamed as ‘A Voz do Brasil’. 1959 Start of the production of Volkswagen Beetle in Brazil. 1983 First broadcast of Praça TV, by Rede Globo. 1983 First broadcast of Bom Dia Brasil, by Globo. 1984 Departure of ‘Barão de Teffé’, a Brazilian research vessel, to Antarctica, in order to establish the first Brazilian research station on the continent. 1987 Aviation accident in Ivory Coast involving an airplane of Varig. 2005 The city of Criciúma (Santa Catarina) hit by a tornado.
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