1943 in Argentina

Events from the year 1943 in Argentina

Incumbents

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

Events

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

August

• Laboral strike of Refrigerators Unions

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.

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^[1]
• February 9 - Santiago Soldati, entrepreneur^[2]
• 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)^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• August 1 - Carlos Roffé, film and television actor (died 2005)^[6]
• 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)^[7]
• October 19 - Adolfo Aristarain, film director and screenwriter
• November 1 - José Ignacio García Hamilton, writer, historian, lawyer and politician (died 2009)^[8]
• November 5 - Mariano Etkin, composer
• November 6 - Roberto Telch, footballer
• November 12 - Claudio Slon, jazz drummer (died 2002)^[9]
• November 16
  • Juan Giménez, comic book artist
  • Rodolfo Terragno, politician, lawyer and journalist
• November 18 - Leonardo Sandri, Roman Catholic cardinal^[10]
• November 25 - Dante Caputo, academic, diplomat and politician
• December 6 - Miguel Lunghi, politician
• December 12 - Miguel Ángel Raimondo, footballer
• December 24 - Ricardo N. Degrossi, artist
• date unknown
  • Guillermo Vargas Aignasse, politician (disappeared 1976)^[11]
  • 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)^[12]
• October 15 - Sabá Sueyro, politician (born 1876)
• October 25 - Hubert Duggan, Argentine-born British soldier and politician (born 1904; tuberculosis)^[13]
• December 7 - Collier Twentyman Smithers, Argentine-born British painter (born 1867)

References

1. Sobisch 2007 official site (Spanish)
2. Swiss Info: Villa Lugano (Spanish)
3. "MURIO CARLOS TRILLO, EL AUTOR DEL LOCO CHAVEZ Y CLARA DE NOCHE" (in Spanish). Terra Networks. May 9, 2011.
4. "Berlinale: 1984 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
5. Venezuela Analítica - Otra exclusiva de Analitica.com: Ceresole visto por él mismo
6. Carlos Roffé at the Internet Movie Database.
7. "Former Prime Minister Andrej Bajuk Dies" (in Slovenian). Slovenian Press Agency. 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
8. Murió el historiador y diputado García Hamilton Página 12, 19 June 2009 (Spanish)
9. The Official Claudio Slon Website
10. "Pope: Runners and riders". BBC News (BBC).
11. Argentine chiefs jailed for life, BBC Online, 28 August 2008.
12. Parker, William Belmont (1920). Argentines of today. Volume 5 of Hispanic Notes and Monographs 2 (Digitized May 22, 2008 ed.). New York: The Hispanic Society of America. pp. 637–640.
13. Selina Hastings, "Evelyn Waugh: A Biography" (Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1994), p. 454.

Bibliography

• Romero, Luis Alberto (2010). 1940-1949. Buenos Aires: Clarín. ISBN 978-987-07-0874-2.