Today Is A Holiday In Brazil.

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today is tiradentes day: his name was JOAQUIM JOSE DA SILVA XAVIER, also known as TIRADENTES (tooth puller) was the liader of the first organized movement against portuguese rule in brasil in 1789. he was born 1748 near sao joao del rei MINAS GERAIS. he was reasonably well educated and worked as a physician, merchant dentist.
Officials portuguese brutally executing tiradentes.portugueses authorities ordered his body to be cut into pieces and to be prominently displayed along posts in city boulevards.
Tiradentes martyrdom made him national hero.