1943 in Argentina

Events from the year 1943 in Argentina.

Incumbents

• President: Ramón Castillo, Arturo Rawson, Pedro Pablo Ramírez
• Vice President: Sabá Sueyro, Edelmiro Julián Farrell

Governors

• Buenos Aires Province: Rodolfo Moreno, Edgardo J. Míguez, Oscar Cazalas (de facto), Armando Verdaguer, Faustino J. Legón
• Cordoba: Santiago del Castillo
• Mendoza Province: Adolfo Vicchi, Humberto Sosa Molina, Luis Elías Villanueva, Aristóbulo Vargas Belmonte

Vice Governors

• Buenos Aires Province: Edgardo J. Míguez (until 12 June); vacant thereafter (starting 12 June)

Events

January

February

March

April

May

• The Radical Civic Union, the Socialist Party and the Democrat Progresist Party join forces to create the Democratic Union
• The CGT gets divided in two factions, led by J. Domenech and F. Pérez Leiroz

June

• Revolution of '43 – President Ramón Castillo is deposed by a military coup. Arturo Rawson takes the presidency, but he is removed immediately and replaced by Pedro Pablo Ramírez
• A laboral strike in Jujuy causes four deaths

July

August

• Laboral strike of the meat industry unions.

September

October

• Juan Domingo Perón signs the first collective laboral agreement
• Hugo Wast, ministry of education, outlaws lunfardo and forces many tango artists to rewrite the lyrics of their songs.

November

• Juan Domingo Perón is appointed for the Secretary of Labour and Welfare.
• Many communist leaders, as José Peter, are jailed.

December

Unknown date

Ongoing

• Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war

Births

• January 6 – Osvaldo Soriano, journalist and writer (died 1997)
• January 16 – Jorge Sobisch, politician
• February 9 – Santiago Soldati, entrepreneur
• March 4 – Aldo Rico, soldier and politician
• April 6 – Omar Vergara, Olympic fencer
• April 7 – Ángel Marcos, footballer
• April 8 – Víctor Bó, film actor and producer
• May 1 – Carlos Trillo, comic book writer (died 2011)
• May 24 – Héctor Aguer, Archbishop of La Plata
• May 30 – Víctor Laplace, actor
• June 5 – Hermes Binner, physician and politician
• June 14 – Jeanine Meerapfel, German-Argentine film director and screenwriter
• July 13
• Carlos Borcosque Jr., film director and screenwriter
• Juan Carlos Sconfianza, footballer
• July 23 – Hugo Arana, film, television and theatre actor
• August – Norberto Ceresole, sociologist and political scientist (died 2003)
• August 1 – Carlos Roffé, film and television actor (died 2005)
• August 2 – Emilio Disi, actor
• August 3 – Elio Roca, singer
• August 4 – Angel Balzarino, writer
• August 18 – Norma Pons, actress (died 2014)
• September 17 – Carlos Sampayo, writer
• October 6 – Luis Alberto, footballer
• October 18 – Andrej Bajuk, Slovene politician and economist brought up in Argentina (died 2011)
• October 19 – Adolfo Aristarain, film director and screenwriter
• November 1 – José Ignacio García Hamilton, writer, historian, lawyer and politician (died 2009)
• November 5 – Mariano Etkin, composer
• November 6 – Roberto Telch, footballer
• November 12 – Claudio Slon, jazz drummer (died 2002)
• November 16
• Juan Giménez, comic book artist
• Rodolfo Terragno, politician, lawyer and journalist
• November 18 – Leonardo Sandri, Roman Catholic cardinal
• November 25 – Dante Caputo, academic, diplomat and politician
• December 6 – Miguel Lunghi, politician
• December 12 – Miguel Ángel Raimondo, footballer
• date unknown
• Guillermo Vargas Aignasse, politician (disappeared 1976)
• Liliana Heker, writer
• Carlos Santiago Nino, philosopher (died 1993)
• Miguel Angel Varvello, bandoneon player
• Horacio Vaggione, composer
• Barylka Yerahmiel, rabbi, educator, journalist and lecturer

Deaths

• January 11 – Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina 1932–1938 (born 1876)
• January 29 – José A. Ferreyra, film director and screenwriter (born 1889)
• August 24 – Antonio Alice, painter (born 1886)
• October 15 - Sabá Sueyro, politician (born 1876)
• October 25 - Hubert Duggan, Argentine-born British soldier and politician (born 1904; tuberculosis)
• December 7 – Collier Twentyman Smithers, Argentine-born British painter (born 1867)

See also

• List of Argentine films of 1943

References

Bibliography