Events in the year 1963 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: João Goulart
Prime Minister: Hermes Lima (until 23 January) Vice President: vacant
Governors
Acre: Vacant
Alagoas: Luis Cavalcante
Amazonas: Gilberto Mestrinho (until 25 March) Plínio Ramos Coelho (from 25 March) Bahia: Juracy Magalhães (until 7 April) Lomanto Junior (from 7 April) Ceará: Parsifal Barroso (until 25 March) Virgílio Távora (from 25 March) Espírito Santo: Asdrúbal Martins Soares (until 31 January) Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar (from 31 January) Goiás: Mauro Borges Guanabara: Carlos Lacerda Maranhão: Newton de Barros Belo Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa Minas Gerais: José de Magalhães Pinto Pará: Aurélio do Carmo Paraíba: Pedro Gondim Paraná: Nei Braga Pernambuco: Cid Sampaio (until 31 January) Miguel Arraes (from 31 January) Piauí: Tibério Nunes (until 25 March) Petrônio Portella (from 25 March) Rio de Janeiro: José Janotti (until 18 January) Luís Miguel Pinaud (18 January-31 January) Badger da Silveira (from 31 January) Rio Grande do Norte: Aluízio Alves Rio Grande do Sul: Leonel Brizola (until 25 March) Ildo Meneghetti (from 25 March) Santa Catarina: Celso Ramos São Paulo: Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto (until 31 January) Ademar de Barros (from 31 January) Sergipe: Dionísio Machado (until 30 January) Horácio Dantas de Goes (30 January-31 January) João de Seixas Dória (from 31 January)
Vice governors
Alagoas: Teotônio Brandão Vilela
Bahia: Orlando Moscoso
Ceará: Wilson Gonçalves (until 31 January) Joaquim de Figueiredo Correia (from 25 March) Espírito Santo: Rubens Rangel (from 31 January) Goiás: Antônio Rezende Monteiro (until 31 January) Vacant thereafter (from 31 January) Maranhão: Alfredo Salim Duailibe Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama Pará: Newton Burlamaqui de Miranda Paraíba: André Avelino de Paiva Gadelha Pernambuco: Paulo Pessoa Guerra Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida Rio de Janeiro: João Batista da Costa (from 31 January) Rio Grande do Norte: Teodorico Bezerra (from 19 January) Santa Catarina: Armindo Marcílio Doutel de Andrade São Paulo: Porfírio da Paz (until 31 January) Laudo Natel (from 31 January) Sergipe: Celso Carvalho (from 31 January)
Events
January
January 6: A plebiscite chooses the presidential system over a parliamentary one. As a result, the office of the Prime Minister is abolished. January 8: The flag of Minas Gerais is instituted.
March
March 12: The first Korean immigrants arrive in Brazil.
April
April 20-May 5: The 1963 Pan American Games are held in São Paulo.
May
May 23: The Brazilian national team wins its second World Men's Basketball Championship by beating the Soviet Union by 90 to 79 points, in Rio de Janeiro.
July
July 20: Ieda Maria Vargas becomes the first Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, which is held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America.
October
October 7: The Ipatinga massacre takes place, after military police shot at Usiminas employees.
November
November 16: Santos FC becomes the first Brazilian club to win a second Intercontinental Cup (football).
December
December 4: Senator Arnon de Melo, who was trying to shoot Senator Silvestre Péricles, shot and killed alternate Senator José Kairala.
Births
January
January 5 – Luís Carlos Winck, footballer and coach
January 12 – Nando Reis, musician and producer
March
March 11 – Marcos Pontes, astronaut and politician
October
October 31 – Dunga, footballer and coach
November
November 2 – Valdemiro Santiago, evangelical pastor
Deaths
November 4 – Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo, poet and writer (b. 1872)