1942 in Argentina

Events from the year '''1942 in Argentina'''

Incumbents

President: Roberto María Ortiz, Ramón Castillo
Vice President: Ramón Castillo

Governors

Buenos Aires Province:

*Dimas González Gowland
*Rodolfo Moreno Cordoba: Santiago del CastilloMendoza Province: Adolfo Vicchi

Vice Governors

Buenos Aires Province:

*Vacant
*Edgardo J. Míguez

Events

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

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.

August

Gillette and Helena Rubinstein start working in the country

October

The port of Rosario is nationalized
Gaseoduct La Plata-Buenos Aires

December

Agustín Pedro Justo announces his intention to run for the presidency.

Ongoing

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

Births

January

January 1 – Lita Stantic, film director, producer and screenwriter
January 22 – Juan Carlos Sarnari, footballer

February

February 10 – Roberto Aguirre, footballer
February 11 – Horacio Verbitsky, investigative journalist
February 27 – Miguel Ángel Santoro, footballer

March

March 4 – Juan Carlos Oleniak, footballer
March 22 – Leo Dan, composer and singer
March 24 – Roberto Lavagna, economist and politician
April 12 – Carlos Reutemann, racing driver and politician
April 27 – Carlos Enrique Gavito, tango dancer
April 29 – Horacio Iglesias, swimmer
May 6 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist
May 13 – Adolfo Bisellach, Olympic fencer
May 18 – Juan Carlos Carone, footballer
May 23 – José Omar Pastoriza, footballer
May 25 – Marcos Mundstock, musician and comedian
June 11 – Cacho Castaña, singer and actor
June 27 – Jérôme Savary, Argentine-French theatre director and actor
July 10
*Francisco Escos, footballer
*José Antonio Muñoz, artist
July 19 – Agustín Irusta, footballer
August 7 – Carlos Monzón, boxer
August 13 - Jorge Altamira, politician
September 1 - Daniel Willington, footballer
September 8 - Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Roman Catholic bishop
September 25 - Oscar Bonavena, boxer
October 3
*Roberto Perfumo, footballer
*Margherita Zimmermann, operatic mezzo-soprano
October 8 – María Julia Alsogaray, politician
October 15 – Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician
November 8 – Fernando Sorrentino, writer
November 15 – Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor
November 19 – Moris, rock musician
November 27 – Néstor Togneri, footballer
December 9 – Marcos Conigliaro, football player and coach
December 12 – Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry, physician and academic
date unknown
*Pocho Lapouble, jazz musician
*Beatriz Sarlo, literary and cultural critic.
*Oscar Zarate, comic book artist and illustrator

Deaths

March 23 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, politician
May 3 – Elías Isaac Alippi, actor, director and impresario
June 3 – Vicente Gallo, lawyer, academic and politician
July 15 – Roberto María Ortiz, politician
July 20 – Julio Salvador Sagreras, guitarist and composer
July 26 – Roberto Arlt, writer
August 31 – Teddie Gerard, actress and entertainer
September 23 – Alfredo Carricaberry, footballer
October 8 – Julio Argentino Pascual Roca, politician and diplomat