Events from the year 1942 in Argentina
Incumbents
Governors
Vice Governors
Events
January
February
March
- The Concordancia wins the national elections for deputies in most provinces. The Socialist party prevails in Buenos Aires, and the UCR in Corrientes and Tucuman
- Corrientes and Tucuman are intervened
April
May
June
- Roberto Ortiz, ill of diabetes, resigns as president. Ramón Castillo, acting president since 1941, becomes official president.
- The chamber of deputies votes to break relations with Nazi Germany, the chamber of senators does not discuss the project.
July
August
September
October
- The port of Rosario is nationalized
- Gaseoduct La Plata-Buenos Aires
November
December
Unknown date
Ongoing
- Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war
Births
January
February
March
- March 4 â Juan Carlos Oleniak, footballer
- March 22 â Leo Dan, composer and singer
- March 24 â Roberto Lavagna, economist and politician
- April 12 â Carlos Reutemann, racing driver and politician
- April 27 â Carlos Enrique Gavito, tango dancer
- April 29 â Horacio Iglesias, swimmer (died 2004)
- May 6 â Ariel Dorfman, Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist
- May 13 â Adolfo Bisellach, Olympic fencer
- May 18 â Juan Carlos Carone, footballer
- May 23 â José Omar Pastoriza, footballer (died 2004)
- May 25 â Marcos Mundstock, musician and comedian
- June 11 â Cacho Castaña, singer and actor
- June 27 â Jérôme Savary, Argentine-French theatre director and actor (died 2013)
- July 10
- Francisco Escos, footballer
- José Antonio Muñoz, artist
- July 19 â AgustÃÂn Irusta, footballer
- August 7 â Carlos Monzón, boxer (died 1995)
- August 13 - Jorge Altamira, politician
- September 1 - Daniel Willington, footballer
- September 8 - Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Roman Catholic bishop
- September 25 - Oscar Bonavena, boxer (died 1976)
- October 3
- Roberto Perfumo, footballer
- Margherita Zimmermann, operatic mezzo-soprano
- October 8 â MarÃÂa Julia Alsogaray, politician
- October 15 â Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician
- November 8 â Fernando Sorrentino, writer
- November 15 â Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor
- November 19 â Moris, rock musician
- November 27 â Néstor Togneri, footballer (died 1999)
- December 9 â Marcos Conigliaro, football player and coach
- December 12 â Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, physician and academic
- date unknown
- Pocho Lapouble, jazz musician (died 2009)
- Beatriz Sarlo, literary and cultural critic.
- Oscar Zarate, comic book artist and illustrator
Deaths
- March 23 â Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, politician (born 1868)
- May 3 â ElÃÂas Isaac Alippi, actor, director and impresario (born 1883)
- June 3 â Vicente Gallo, lawyer, academic and politician (born 1873)
- July 15 â Roberto MarÃÂa Ortiz, politician (born 1886; diabetes)
- July 20 â Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer (born 1879)
- July 26 â Roberto Arlt, writer (born 1900)
- August 31 â Teddie Gerard, actress and entertainer (born 1890; lung infection)
- September 23 â Alfredo Carricaberry, footballer (born 1900)
- October 8 â Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, politician and diplomat (born 1873)
See also
Bibliography
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