This week’s main commemorative date is the Father’s Daycelebrated on Sunday, August 10th. Ephemeris emerged as a way to move the economy, as this report explains Brazil agencyof 2022. But it soon became a date to honor those who are dedicated to educating and taking care of their children. And in this sense, parents of recent decades have had to adapt to technological evolutions, with almost omnipresent cell phones and social networks, as This other text from Agencypublished last year. THE National radio He took the date to show how today’s men reinvent themselves to educate their children without machismo. And the Reporter Brazilfrom the TV Brazilshowed in 2016 how paternity has excited older men, who have children already close to the elderly. 
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In recent years the concept of active paternity has gained strength, which argues that parents have not only a figurative role or family provider, but are partner of mothers, effectively sharing responsibilities in child rearing. This leads us to another ephemeris this week: the National Responsible Paternity Awareness Daycelebrated on August 14. In 2017, the Reporter Brazilfrom the TV Brazil Heard several men about active paternity. In 2023, National radio Interviewed psychologist and writer Alexandre Coimbra Amaral, who explained that the movement began with women’s claims.
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THE National radio It has deepened the theme of active paternity on several occasions. Check out the programs below:
Daily (2016)
National afternoon (2018)
National national (2022)
THE Lawyer Day It is celebrated on August 11. The date marks the creation of the first law schools in Brazil, by Emperor Dom Pedro I, in 1827, as explained by the Reporter São Paulofrom the TV Brazil. When the Brazilian law filed 190, in 2017, the Brazil agency He published this report, emphasizing the importance of the profession for the advancement of social rights and fundamental guarantees. Already the National afternoonfrom the National radioapproached in 2024 how the market is for those who decide to follow the business of law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXPZYCZX9W
Human rights
THE National Human Rights Daycelebrated on August 12, arose due to a tragedy. It was on this date, in 1983, that union leader Margarida Maria Alves was murdered by landowners in Alagoa Grande, Paraíba. Last year, the BRAZIL MAGAZINEfrom the National radiotalked about the importance of the date. Unfortunately, the number of cases of human rights violation in Brazil has increased, as reported earlier this year Brazil agency and this edition of Reporter Brasil Afternoonfrom the TV Brazil. Due to the severity of the theme, the vehicles of the Brazil Communication Company (EBC) also addressed the violation of human rights of specific groups. See the content below:
People with disabilities (Brazil Agency – 2023)
Homeless people (GOV AGENCY – 2024)
Detainee (National Radio Aagency – 2025)
Youth
THE International Youth Day It is celebrated on August 12. The celebration was instituted by the United Nations (UN) in 1999. Ephemeris recognizes the role of young people in the discussion and resolution of society’s problems, and discusses the challenges of youth around the world, as this 2021 edition showed show National afternoonfrom the National radio. Already the GOV AGENCY He spoke about the importance of young people in the countryside for the maintenance and growth of family farming, in this report published in 2024.
History
80 years ago, on August 15, 1945, Japan accepted the allied terms of surrender in World War II. The capitulation of the Asian country came only after the cities of Hiroshima and Nagazaki are the target of the first atomic bombs in history, launched by the United States. For the first time, the Japanese listened to Emperor Hirohito’s voice on the radio, when he announced that he was forced to accept the conditions imposed on the opposing side. The episode was the theme of this edition of History Todayfrom the National radioin 2014, and Brazil agencypublished in 2022.
Check out the full relationship of dates today is the day of August 10 to 16, 2025.
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Death of sociologist and politician from São Paulo Florestan Fernandes (30 years)
Birth of Minas Gerais politician Gustavo Capanema Filho (125 years) – He was Minister of Education and founder of two outstanding agencies throughout the Estado Novo: the service of national historical and artistic heritage and the National Book Institute, founded in November and December 1937, respectively.
Father’s Day – Brazil’s unofficial mobile celebration, which would have been created in 1953 by the Brazilian publicist Sylvio Bhering, with the purpose of attracting product ads that could be gift data, whose celebration occurs on the second Sunday of August
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Lawyer Day – Commemorative date in memory of the creation of the first two law schools in the country, in 1827. On that day there is also the day of Pendura, celebrated by Brazilian law students, who go to restaurants, eat and drink and then send “hang” account
The construction of São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (45 years) began
Foundation of the Maceioense Academy of Letters (70 years)
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The largest, most extensive and best preserved specimen of Tyrannosaurus Rex, the FMNH PR 2081, nicknamed “Sue” (35 years)
International Youth Day – Commemoration instituted by the UN in its resolution No. 54/120, of December 17, 1999
National Human Rights Day
National Arts Day
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Birth of the composer, conductor and instrumentalist carioca/Fluminense Pedro da Cruz Salgado (135 years) – considered the “king of the musical bands” and honored with a silver baton, award previously granted only for conductors Carlos Gomes and Villa -Lobos
Death of the poet and proser Mineiro Murilo Monteiro Mendes (50 years) – Exponent of Surrealism in Brazilian Literature
Creation of the Angatuba Ecological Station, an important Nature Reserve of the Cerrado Meeting with the Atlantic Forest (40 years)
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Foundation of the Portuguese Sports Association, São Paulo Football Club (105 years)
National Responsible Paternity Awareness Day
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Japan accepts the allied terms of surrender in World War II and the emperor reads the discourse of the imperial termination of the end of the war (80 years)
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Death of the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz (125 years)
Warehouse Professional Day
*The dates are selected by the team of researchers of the Efemerid Project, the collection management of the Brazil Communication Company (EBC)which brings themes related to culture, history, science and personalities, always highlighting national and regional landmarks. The collection management also complies with requests for research from the external public. Just send an email to [email protected].
