The week between August 18 and 24, 2024, has dates that help us remember places, institutions and people. On the 21st, one of the most iconic parks in the country turns 70. It was on this day, in 1954, that Ibirapuera Park was founded. With a vast green space and a stage for various cultural events, the space was the subject of special articles in Reporter Brazil in 2014 and 2019 which can be recalled below: 
A little earlier, on the 19th, we celebrated the 55th anniversary of Embraer, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world. Headquartered in São José dos Campos, the global aviation giant was the subject of an article in Reporter Brazil in 2019.
Ozires Silva, founder of the company, was also featured in content from EBC as the Brazil Agency and himself Reporter Brazil (both in 2021).
Two notable figures are also remembered on August 24th. 70 years ago, former president Getúlio Vargas died. The tragic death of the politician from Rio Grande do Sul (who took his own life in 1954) was a milestone in the history of Brazil. The episode was remembered on this matter of Brazil Agency and in this video of Reporter Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc-JS8kHWI
On the same day, the birth of Paulo Leminski, one of the most talented and innovative Brazilian writers and poets, completes 80 years. Having died in 1989, he is still remembered today for his transgressive verses and was the subject of content from EBC as a edition of History Today and a special from Literary Moment (program frame) MEC Antenna) which can be heard below:
Important dates
The week also has several dates that help us celebrate and reflect. Three of them are tomorrow (August 19): World Photography Day, National Historian’s Day and National Cyclist’s Day.
World Photography Day is celebrated on August 19 to mark the date in 1839 when the Daguerreotype, invented by French researcher Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was announced to the world at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. Programs of the EBC Radios as the Radio Society (from the MEC AM) and the Long live Mary (from the National Radio of the Amazon) have already celebrated the date:
National Historian’s Day was established by Law No. 12,130 of 2009 and is a tribute to Joaquim Nabuco (who was born in 1849). National Cyclist’s Day was created in memory of environmentalist, biologist and cyclist Pedro Davison, who was tragically run over by a drunk driver in 2006 while cycling in Brasília. The date serves to raise awareness of caution in traffic and also the importance of public policies for cyclists. National Radio Agency already talked about the subject in 2014 and 2019:
To close the week, we have Folklore Day, celebrated on August 22. The date, dedicated to recognizing and preserving the traditions, legends, music, dances, festivals and customs that make up Brazilian folklore, was highlighted in Reporter Brazil, Reporter Maranhao and History Today:
Check out the list of dates for Hoje é Dia from August 18 to 24, 2024:
August 2024
18
South Africa banned from the Olympics by the IOC for not renouncing the apartheid regime (60 years)
19
Death of American quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling (aged 30) – winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize
Death of Maranhão journalist and writer Odylo Costa Filho (45 years old) – he was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Birth of the politician, diplomat, historian, jurist, orator and journalist from Pernambuco, Joaquim Nabuco (175 years old)
Birth of singer Aracy de Almeida from Rio de Janeiro (110 years old)
Birth of the São Paulo poet and translator Haroldo de Campos (95 years old)
Foundation of Embraer (55 years)
Announcement of the creation of the daguerreotype by the French Academy of Sciences (185 years ago) – the first photographic process to be announced and commercialized to the general public. The French government declared the invention to be in the public domain
World Photography Day – celebrated to mark the date of August 19, 1849, when the Daguerreotype, an invention of the French researcher, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was announced to the world at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris
National Historian’s Day – celebrated by Brazilians, according to Law No. 12,130 of December 17, 2009, to mark the date of birth of the Brazilian diplomat, politician, journalist, historian and writer, Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo, who came into the world on August 19, 1849, and who, despite having been raised by a slave-owning family, chose to fight in favor of the slaves of Brazil
National Cyclist Day – unofficially celebrated in Brazil to mark the date of the death of Brazilian environmentalist, biologist and cyclist, Pedro Davison, which occurred on August 19, 2006, after he was run over by a drunk driver while cycling on the Eixo Rodoviário in the Brazilian city of Brasília-DF
World Humanitarian Day – commemoration established by the 63rd UN General Assembly in Resolution A-63-L.49 of 11 December 2008, in tribute to the approximately 100 humanitarian service providers who were killed in the line of duty each year in the first decade of the 21st century, and to mark the date of the 19 August 2003 attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq
20
Birth of the poet Ana Lins do Guimarães Peixoto Bretas from Goiás, known as Cora Coralina (135 years old)
Foundation of the Brazilian Sports Confederation (CBD) (110 years)
Foundation of the Higher School of War (75 years)
21
Death of Bahian singer and composer Raul Seixas (35 years old)
Birth of São Paulo activist Rosely Roth (65 years old) – pioneer in the movement to defend sexual diversity in Brazil
Start of the National Week for People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
Foundation of Ibirapuera Park (70 years)
22
23
First Brazilian Football Championship with state champion clubs (Taça Brasil) (65 years)
24
Birth of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (age 95)
Death of the politician from Rio Grande do Sul Getúlio Vargas (70 years old)
Birth of the writer, poet, literary critic, translator and professor from Paraná Paulo Leminski (80 years old)
Birth of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (125 years old)
