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Dia da Educação
(Education). Education is essential for personal, social, cultural, and economical development. Education in Brazil is still not of an acceptable level. However, programs have been introduced to achieve five ambitious goals in 2022:
1. “Every Brazilian between 4 and 17 years must attend school.” In 2010, the percentage was 91.2 percent.
2. “Every Brazilian child must be completely alphabetized at the age of 8.” In 2011, writing (54%), reading (56%), and mathematics skills (43%) were well below the target of 80 percent.
3. “Every student of the primary and high school should apprehend the materials for at least 70 percent.” In 2011, the 2011 goals weren’t reached, with the exception of mathematics in the first years of the primary school.
4. “Every Brazilian should have completed the high school at the age of 19.” In 2011, only 65 percent had concluded the primary school, and 51 percent the high school.
5. “Government expenditure in education should increase to at least five percent of the BBP.” In 2010, the percentage was 4,3 percent.
Dia Nacional da Caatinga
(Caatinga vegetation). This vegetation type is only found in the northeastern part of Brazil. The Tupi word may be translated as ‘white forest’. Caatinga mainly consists of small thorny trees and arid-adapted grasses. During the short raining season, annual plants appear and flower. People living in this region are considered among the poorest in Brazil. The day was established per presidential decree on 20 August 2003. The date refers to the birth of Brazilian ecologist João Vasconcelos Sobrinho (1908-1989).
|Globo Repórter nos Céus da imensidão da Caatinga, único bioma exclusivamente brasileiro
||Bioma da Caatinga
|Caatinga: Imagens incríveis da caatinga feitas de um balão
||Brazil for Travelers – Caatinga
|A CAATINGA! [ Parte 1 ]
||A CAATINGA! [ Parte 2 ]
|Dia de Campo na TV – Recuperação de áreas degradadas na Caatinga
||“Caatinga” – Globo Rural – TV Globo
Dia da Sogra
Dia do Cartão-Postal
Dia do Cartofilista
(Post card collector).
Dia do Trabalhador Joalheiro
(Jewelsmith). On 28 April 1959, the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Joalheiros (Jewelsmiths Union) was founded in São Paulo. Since 1997, the day is an official date of the calendar of the city of São Paulo. According to Sintrajoias, the jewelsmiths receive 30 percent extra on this day.
Birth of Brazilian physician Vital Brazil (1865-1950)
Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha was a physician and an internationally known scientist, specialized in immunology. He was famous for the antidotes against bites from snakes, scorpions and spiders. He was the founder of Butantan, a scientific institute that is specialized in basic and applied toxicology, and the science of venomous animals.
|História Dr. Vital Brasil
||MUSEU CASA DE VITAL BRAZIL – CAMPANHA/MG
|Vídeo Institucional do Instituto Vital Brazil
||Globo Rural- As 10 mais do Instituto Butantan
Birth of Brazilian poet Alberto de Oliveira
Foundation of Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira (Samba school Mangueira).
|Matéria do RJTV sobre a história da Mangueira
||Fala Mangueira! – o documentário inteiro (1981)
||História do pavilhão da Mangueira
Start of the first flight over the Atlantic Ocean (from Genua to Santos) by a seaplane.
The plane ‘Jahú’ was flown by João Ribeiro de Barros.
JOÃO RIBEIRO DE BARROS
|Herói brasileiro Comandante João Ribeiro de Barros – Jahu (SP)
||João Ribeiro de Barros – Jahú aterrisando em Santos em 1927
|Chegada do Hidroavião Jahu ao Rio de Janeiro
||Jahu no Recife 1927
|João Ribeiro de Barros – documentário
||Jahú – João Ribeiro de Barros
First electrical bondes (trams) in Santos.
On 9 October 1871, the first tram line was inaugurated in Santos. These trams were pulled by donkeys. In 1909 started the service of electrical trams. The last tram service was on 28 February 1971. In 1984, trams were reintroduced for tourism.
BONDES IN SANTOS
|Bondes de Santos
||Bondes de Santos: O Bonde Aberto – Tramways in Brazil
|Programa Revista Cultural UNISANTOS TV Os Bondes de Santos SP
||Bonde de Santos
|100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 1
||100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 2
|100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 3
||100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 4
|100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 5
||100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 6
|100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 7
||100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 8
|100 ANOS BONDES DE SANTOS 2009 – PARTE 9
||Jovem Pan Online – Viagem no Tempo: Bonde turístico de Santos
|Bondes de Santos (História e Revitalização do Centro) Parte 1
||Bondes de Santos (História e Revitalização do Centro) Parte 2
Departure (from Kobe, Japan) of the first Japanese migrants heading for Brazil.
They arrived on 18 June 1908
Sequestration of banker Ezequiel Edmond Nasser.
He was freed on 12 July 1994.
More than 300 Indigenous protested in Salvador against the violence in the south of the state of Bahia.
By Adriano Antoine Robbesom © 2007, 2015