The week between November 3rd and 9th is full of commemorative dates. Tomorrow is Favela Day. The date, promoted by Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), aims to give visibility to the issues and achievements of communities and their residents. The day commemorates the first documented reference to favelas in Brazil, from a letter written in 1900. This entire story was told in this article from National Radio Agency 2022:
On November 5th, we have two dates related to the construction of knowledge. One of them is a tribute to the birth of Rui Barbosa, one of Brazil’s greatest jurists and intellectuals. It’s Culture and Science Day. On the same date, National Portuguese Language Day is celebrated.
November 6th is in honor of something that many people forget and take for granted: laughter. It is on this date that National Laughter Day is celebrated. Last year, the History Today and the Long live Mary talked about the health benefits of laughter. The editions that show that “laughter is the best medicine” can be heard below:
This week also has Radio Broadcaster Day. Celebrated on November 7th, the date was chosen in honor of the birth of composer and radio host Ary Barroso. THE Long live Mary last year paid tribute to the radio presenter’s trajectory and to his class. The same was done by Reporter Brazil in 2012.
The week also has a series of dates that help us celebrate and cherish memory. One of them is tomorrow, November 4th: on this day, the Union of Scouts of Brazil (UEB) celebrates 100 years of founding. UEB is the main organization linked to scouting in Brazil and aims, through outdoor activities (such as camps), to form conscious citizens and value cooperative practices. The movement was the subject of an edition of History Today this year and an article from Maranhão Reporter in 2007:
On November 6th, Anita Malfatti’s death marks 60 years. A central figure of the 1922 Modern Art Week, Malfatti was a pioneer in the introduction of modernist trends in Brazilian art. Its importance and influence on Brazilian art were themes of an edition of Art Club (from the MEC Radio) 2022, which can be remembered below:
In 2009, the program From There to Here made a special edition about her biography:
Another loss that turns 60 is that of the writer Cecília Meireles. It was on November 9, 1964 that she passed away. His entire trajectory was also told in an edition of History Todaythis time, in 2015.
Also on November 9th, the birth of another poet turns 80 years old. On this day, in 1944, Torquato Neto was born. One of the inventors of Tropicalismo, a cultural movement that marked Brazil in the 1960s, Neto was, in 2021, the subject of a special edition of program Mosaico, from Rádio Nacional da Amazônia:
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Death of the poet, lawyer, journalist, ethnographer and playwright from Maranhão Gonçalves Dias (160 years old) – exponent of Brazilian romanticism
Birth of British journalist Anna Wintour (75 years old) – editor-in-chief of the North American edition of Vogue magazine
Birth of Scottish doctor and chemist Daniel Rutherford (275 years old) – known for having discovered and isolated the chemical element nitrogen, describing some of its properties, in 1772. He also described oxygen, which he called “vital air”
Death of French painter, draftsman, engraver and sculptor Henri Matisse (70 years old)
International Day of Biosphere Reserves – celebration established by UNESCO to be celebrated in the month of the anniversary of the launch of the Man and the Biosphere program, which was made public between 9 and 19 November 1971, and which is related to the World Network of Reserves of the Biosphere
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Death of composer and guitarist Cândido das Neves (90 years old)
Birth/Death of former American football player Bert Patenaude (50 years old) – credited as the first football player to score three goals (hat trick) in the same match at the FIFA World Cup
Birth of former sociologist and professor from Rio Grande do Sul Maurício Tragtenberg (95 years old)
Death of lawyer, general and politician from Rio Grande do Sul José Antônio Flores da Cunha (65 years old)
Birth of Rio de Janeiro filmmaker and screenwriter Haroldo Marinho Barbosa (80 years old) – directed the award-winning Engraçadinha (1981)
Foundation of the Union of Scouts of Brazil (100 years)
The first issue of the British interdisciplinary scientific journal Nature is published (155 years old) – it was ranked as the most cited scientific journal in the world
Favela Day – celebration of members of the Central Única das Favelas with events in various locations in Brazil, which is official in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; aims to mark the date of a letter dated November 4, 1900, which was written by a delegate from the 10th Circumscription of Rio de Janeiro to the then Chief of Police, Enéas Galvão, about the Morro da Providência favela. The document is considered the first documented reference in Brazilian history about favelas
Inventors Day
F. Zampari and C. Matazzaro found the Vera Cruz Cinematographic Company, in São Bernardo do Campo/SP (70 years old)
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Death of Ukrainian pianist Vladimir Horowitz (35 years old)
Death of Rio de Janeiro actor, producer, director and playwright Octávio Alves da Graça Mello, better known as Graça Mello (45 years old)
Birth of former Rio football player Alfredo Brilhante da Costa (120 years old) – Brilhante would have been the true inventor of the “bicycle” kick, instead of Leônidas da Silva
Birth of Bahian jurist, lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer, philologist, journalist, translator and speaker Ruy Barbosa (175 years old)
Culture and Science Day – celebration of Brazil, which was created by Law No. 5,579 of May 19, 1970, and which is also known as “National Day of Brazilian Science and Culture”
National Portuguese Language Day – celebration that was established by Law No. 11,310 of June 12, 2006
World Tsunami Awareness Day – date recognized by the UN
Amateur Radio Day
National Design Day – celebration established by Decree of October 19, 1998
First broadcast of TV Educativa (TVE) (49 years)
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Death of painter, designer, engraver, illustrator and teacher from São Paulo Anita Malfatti (60 years old)
Death of São Paulo actress and presenter Célia Biar (25 years old)
International Day for the Prevention of Exploitation of the Environment in Times of War and Armed Conflict – commemoration established by the UN in Resolution 56/4, of November 5, 2001
National Laughter Day
Launch of the fictional series “Teatro de Mistério”, on Rádio Nacional in Rio de Janeiro (67 years old) – written by Hélio do Soveral, it dealt with investigations into murder crimes, carried out by the Judiciary Police Department
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Launch of the program “O Céu do Brasil”, broadcast on Rádio MEC (46 years) – aimed to address celestial phenomena, in a way accessible to listeners
Death of actor, screenwriter and filmmaker from São Paulo Anselmo Duarte (15 years old)
Broadcaster’s Day
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Death of biologist, sanitary doctor, scientist and bacteriologist from Minas Gerais Carlos Chagas (90 years old)
Birth of Japanese mangaka and writer Masashi Kishimoto (50 years old) – creator of the manga Naruto
Minas Gerais football player Heleno de Freitas (65 years old) dies
Birth of the lawyer, journalist and poet from Maranhão Teófilo Dias (170 years old) – nephew of Gonçalves Dias and patron of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Execution of the main leaders of the Conjuração Baiana (225 years) – João de Deus Nascimento, Luiz Gonzaga das Virgens e Veiga, Lucas Dantas do Amorim Torres and Manoel Faustino dos Santos Lira were hanged and parts of their bodies exposed in Salvador (BA)
World Urbanism Day – international celebration, which was later made official in Brazil as “National Urbanism Day”; created at the 1935 “Congress of Besançon” in France
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Birth of the Rio de Janeiro photographer, painter and designer Hermínia Borges (130 years old) – one of the pioneers of personal expression photography in Brazil and one of the founders of the Foto Clube Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro. Develops intense photo club activity, receiving awards in numerous international exhibitions
Birth of the poet, journalist and lyricist from Piauni Torquato Neto (80 years old)
Birth of Hungarian naturalized Brazilian actress Eva Todor (105 years old)
Death of journalist, painter, poet and teacher from Rio de Janeiro Cecília Meireles (60 years old)
Birth of Austrian actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr (110 years old) – co-inventor of a communication system for the United States Armed Forces that served as the basis for today’s cell phone
Birth of American scientist, astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan (90 years old)
Organization of the Fiscal Island Ball (135 years) – in honor of the officers of the Chilean ship “Almirante Cochrane”, it was the last Ball of the Brazilian Empire
Beginning of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall (35 years) – act that marks the end of the Cold War
Coup d’état of 18 Brumaire in France begins the Napoleonic period (225 years)
Start of the 34th Edition of Cine Ceará – Ibero-American Film Festival (CE) – will be held from November 9th to 15th, 2024
