• Adélia Fossati Gnattali, Radamés’ mother, dies in Rio de Janeiro.

My mother was a housewife, did all the work and still had time to teach music to her children. She was an extraordinary woman (,,,) had a fabulous musical intuition’..

• When the conductors meet, the musicians get fucked!”, parodied the musicians of the PRE-8 orchestra, referring to the program
  When Maestros Meet,
  premiered in July
  ,
  that brought together the greatest conductors and arrangers of Rádio Nacional. In the photo below, some of the legendary arrangers of that time: from left, Alexandre Gnattali, Romeu Ghipsman, Ercole Vareto, Radamés Gnattali, and Leo Peracchi.

• The trombonist Waldemar Moura debuts the
  Fantasia Brasileira n.º 4
  (1953), by Radamés Gnattali, in the program Quando os Maestros se Encontram , on Rádio Nacional in Rio de Janeiro.

• Radamés records two albums, both for the Continental label:
  Ernesto Nazareth
  with piano and celesta solos and string orchestra accompaniment;
  Brazilian Musical Jewels
  with orchestra, containing famous songs from the Brazilian popular songbook, such as No rancho fundo (Ary Barroso e Lamartine Babo), Carinhoso (Pixinguinha e João de Barro), Linda flor (Henrique Vogeler e Marques Porto), entre outras.

• The Continental label releases, still this year, the elepê Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro, by Tom Jobim and Billy Blanco, with orchestrations and conducting by Radamés Gnattali.
• The Columbia label releases an elepê with
  Quarteto Popular
  (1940/41), by Radamés, performed by the Official String Quartet of the Escola Nacional de Música.
  

• Radamés composes:
  • Brasiliana nº 6 – concerto, for piano and orchestra
  • 
    Brazilian Suite – dances – for piano, electric guitar, bass and drums soloists, with orchestra
    (adapted transcription of Suíte popular brasileira for electric guitar and piano, 1953)

• Revista da Música Popular appears, edited by Lúcio Rangel, with the participation of Ary Barroso, Sérgio Porto, and Manuel Bandeira, among others.
• The Cia. Cinematográfica Vera Cruz closes its activities.
• The city of São Paulo is four hundred years old.
• Miss Brazil Martha Rocha fails to win the Miss Universe pageant, held in Long Beach (California, USA), under the allegation that she had two inches too much hip.
• On August 5, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), journalist and congressman Carlos Lacerda is attacked on Tonelero Street, in Copacabana, and Major Rubens Vaz, who was accompanying the politician, is assassinated. In the press, Lacerda blames the Vargas government. Politicians who support Getúlio accuse Lacerda and his party (UDN) of conspiring against the government by inflaming the armed forces against Getúlio.
• On August 24, pressured by Carlos Lacerda’s accusations (without concrete proof) and by the high command of the Armed Forces, which demanded his resignation, Getúlio Vargas commits suicide in the Catete Palace.