By Lucio Albuquerque
Posted in 24/12/2022 at 08:00

THE DAY IN HISTORY

HELLO, Saturday DECEMBER 24
FAMOUS
orphan’s day
Christians celebrate Christmas Eve. Catholics also celebrate Santa Irmina, Santa Tarsila, Sante Adele or Adela de Pfalzel, Santa Paula Elisabete Cerioli



RONDÔNIA
1914 – Major Fernando Guapindaia de Souza Brejense is appointed superintendent (mayor) of the municipality of Porto Velho. The same act appoints the intendants (advisers).
1954 – Former Governor Joaquim Rondon leads the vote count for the Territory’s only seat in the Federal House.
1981 – Governor Jorge Teixeira arrives from Brasilia and announces: the creation of the state deserves more effort from everyone and that Rondônia has space for those who want to come and work.
1986 – Faced with an internal struggle within the PMDB, his party, the 1st elected governor of Rondônia, Jerônimo Santana, has difficulty composing his secretariat.

BRAZIL
1910 – Corporal João Cândido (“Black Admiral”), leader of the sailors’ revolt, is arrested. 1937 – Born Félix Miélli Venerando, known as Félix, in 1970, goalkeeper of the triple world champion team (died in 2012). 1999 — João Baptista Figueiredo (born in 1918), Brazil’s 30th president, dies and signs the law creating the state of Rondônia. 2006 — The composer Braguinha (born in 1907), also known as João de Barro, author of the lyrics of the classic “Carinhoso”, dies.

WORLD
1524 – Dies Vasco da Gama (born 1469), Portuguese navigator, discoverer of the sea route to the Indies. 1734 – Voltaire publishes the Philosophical Letters. 1906 – Canadian Reginald Fessenden broadcasts the first radio broadcast in the USA (a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech).

PHOTO OF THE DAY

First elected governor (1986) of the state of Rondônia, the former deputy (3 times) and former mayor of Porto Velho Jerônimo Santana promised, in the campaign, “to govern with those who helped to elect”, but 3 months later When he took office he had already encountered resistance within his party because in 1981 he had “imported” the former deputy of Minas Gerais Múcio Athayde who, elected federal deputy in 1982, never returned to the state. In the acronym, divided into several factions such as the “historical emedebists” and the “youth wing” that had defeated him twice, in 1976 and 1978, Jerônimo had more difficulties, in addition to the groups that each wanted to bigger chunks in the essentials. posts. To constitute his secretariat, Jerônimo (FOTO) appointed, in March, several disputed names, including the secretary of finance Adailton Bitencourt, one of the “imported” group, in this case brought from Paraná. (Collection F. Alto Madeira)