Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas died by suicide in his bedroom at the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro. The act came at the height of a severe political and military crisis triggered by the Rua Tonelero attack earlier that month. Vargas had been under intense pressure from opposition leaders and sectors of the armed forces to resign. Shortly before his death, he left a letter to the nation, later known as the “Carta-Testamento”, which had a profound emotional impact on the public.
