1943 in Argentina

Events from the year 1943 in Argentina.

Incumbents

Governors

Buenos Aires Province: Rodolfo Moreno, Edgardo J. Míguez, Oscar Cazalas, 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 ; vacant thereafter

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 the meat industry 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
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
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
August 1 – Carlos Roffé, film and television actor
August 2 – Emilio Disi, actor
August 3 – Elio Roca, singer
August 4 – Angel Balzarino, writer
August 18 – Norma Pons, actress
September 17 – Carlos Sampayo, writer
October 6 – Luis Alberto, footballer
October 18 – Andrej Bajuk, Slovene politician and economist brought up in Argentina
October 19 – Adolfo Aristarain, film director and screenwriter
November 1 – José Ignacio García Hamilton, writer, historian, lawyer and politician
November 5 – Mariano Etkin, composer
November 6 – Roberto Telch, footballer
November 12 – Claudio Slon, jazz drummer
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
*Liliana Heker, writer
*Carlos Santiago Nino, philosopher
*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
January 29 – José A. Ferreyra, film director and screenwriter
August 24 – Antonio Alice, painter
October 15 - Sabá Sueyro, politician
October 25 - Hubert Duggan, Argentine-born British soldier and politician
December 7 – Collier Twentyman Smithers, Argentine-born British painter