The Today is Day between January 22 and 29, 2023 opens the week, remembering the birthday of actress Marília Pêra. If she were alive, Marília would be 80 years old this Sunday (22).
One of the most complete actresses in Brazil, Marília Pêra had an intense performance in theater, television and cinema and was also a singer, dancer, choreographer, producer and director of theatrical and musical shows. Marília’s career adds up to impressive numbers. In the theater, as an actress and director, she acted in 55 plays. In cinema, there were 27 films and on television 26 participations in soap operas and series. Marília collects a total of 37 awards for best actress, between 1969 and 2009. The actress passed away in 2015, aged 72. Read the full report from Brazil Agency.
The program Remembering is TVgives TV Brazilrecalls an interview with Marília Pêra in 2002, check it out.
100 years of Social Security in Brazil
Social Security Day, celebrated on January 24, is a tribute to the publication of the Eloy Chaves Law, on January 24, 1923, which established the basis of the Brazilian social security system, through the creation of the Caixa de Aposentadorias e Pensões for railway company employees. In 1921, deputy Eloy Chaves, on a trip to Monte Serrat with the aim of inspecting a power plant, witnessed a conversation that surprised him. On the train trip, the parliamentarian would have heard from two railway workers laments about the working conditions. Sensitized by the situation, the parliamentarian formulated the bill that would change history two years later.
Postman’s Day
On January 25th, Postman’s Day is celebrated. The date rescues the memory of the creation, on January 25, 1663, of the Correio-Mor in Brazil, whose first holder was Luiz Gomes da Matta Neto, who was already the Correio-Mor of the Kingdom, in Portugal.
In times of internet and social networks, how about putting your cell phone and computer aside and writing a letter? The suggestion is from the program Animated Radiogives MEC radio.
bossa nova day
Also on January 25th, Bossa Nova Day is celebrated. The musical genre is derived from samba and emerged in the 1950s from the demands of a generation of young people who were looking for music more in line with what they lived in Rio de Janeiro at that time. Idealized by Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes and João Gilberto in the rhythm, bossa nova brought a simplification of Rio samba, with elements of North American jazz and compositions with lighter lyrics when compared to samba.
Check out the documentary made by TV Brazil on the occasion of the 60 years of bossa nova.
10 years of the tragedy at Kiss Nightclub
On January 27, 2013, a nightclub in Santa Maria (RS) was the scene of a fire in which 242 people died and another 636 were injured. Most of the victims were young and died after inhaling toxic fumes, unable to leave the club as the only emergency door was closed.
Check the Today is the Day table for other facts and dates that mark the week
January 22 to 28, 2023
22
Birth of the Fluminense actress, singer and theater director Marília Pêra (80 years old)
Birth of Russian filmmaker Serguei Eisenstein (125 years old)
Premiere of the opera “The Phantom Ship”, by Richard Wagner, in Dresden, Germany (180 years)
Portuguese Royal Family disembarks in Bahia (215 years)
24
Death of São Paulo rapper Mauro Mateus dos Santos, known as Sabotage (20 years old)
Social Security Day – the date is a tribute to the publication of the Eloy Chaves Law, on January 24, 1923, which established the basis of the Brazilian social security system, through the creation of the Caixa de Aposentadorias e Pensões for employees of railway companies
25
Birth of academic and politician from São Paulo Fernando Haddad (60 years old)
Postman’s Day – the date rescues the memory of the creation on January 25, 1663 of the Correio-Mor in Brazil, whose first holder was Luiz Gomes da Matta Neto, who was already the Correio-Mor of the Kingdom, in Portugal
bossa nova day
27
Birth of Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (75 years old)
Birth of actor and director from Rio de Janeiro João Caetano (215 years old) – responsible for the professionalization of theater in Brazil
Universal Declaration of Animal Rights proclaimed at the UNESCO assembly in Brussels (45 years)
Tragedy at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul (10 years)
Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War (50 years)
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
International Conservative and Restorative Day
28
Death of Pernambuco painter Cícero Dias (20 years old)
Birth of the São Paulo actress Maitê Proença (65 years old)
Dom João VI signed the Cartá Régia that instituted the “Opening of the Ports in Brazil” (215 years)
National Day to Combat Slave Labor – the date recalls the massacre committed in Unaí – MG by the team of auditors that was going to investigate a complaint of slave labor on a local farm
International Data Privacy Day
World Coral Day in the Amazon
