1940 in Argentina

Events from the year 1940 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Roberto María Ortiz (UCR-A – Concordancia)
• Vicepresident: Ramón Castillo

Events

February

• Intervention of the Catamarca Province

March

• Intervention of the Buenos Aires province

June

• President Ortiz takes leave from work because of diabetes

August

• Construction of the first airplane made in Argentina, a curtiss 75
• Ortiz, during his leave from work, offers his resignation to the Congress amid a political controversy. The Congress does not accept it.

November

• The Congress discusses a proposal for economic reactivation made by minister Federico Pinedo

December

• Juan Tonazzi is appointed minister of War. He rearranges the top military personnel, promoting supporters of Agustín Pedro Justo

Date unknown

• Radio El Mundo starts the radio drama Los Pérez García, which would last up to 1969

Ongoing

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

Births

• April 9 - Chunchuna Villafañe, model, actress and architect
• April 30 - Ermindo Onega, footballer (died 1979)
• May 15 - Carlos Bielicki, chess master
• July 7 - Dora Baret, actress
• August 17 - Eduardo Mignogna, film director and screenwriter (died 2006)
• September 24 - Amelita Baltar, tango singer
• October 17 - Carlos Heller, executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician
• date unknown
  • Cacho Espíndola, actor
  • Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, journalist* Esteban Courtalon
• Esther Norma Arrostito
• Graciela Paraskevaidis
• Guillermo José Garlatti
• Guillermo Saucedo
• Gustavo Bergalli
• Horacio Usandizaga
• Jesús Taboada
• Jorge Ginarte
• Jorge Kissling
• José Rubinstein
• Juan Carlos Maccarone
• Juan Paletta
• Juan Rosai
• Leonardo Henrichsen
• Luis Brandoni
• Luis Cubilla
• Maria Teresa Luengo
• Mario Acuña
• María Cristina Laurenz
• Miguel Ángel Loayza
• Nacha Guevara
• Nestor Combin
• Osvaldo Lamborghini
• Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero
• Raúl Zaffaroni
• Roberto Matosas
• Rodolfo Mederos
• Román Quinos
• Silvio Marzolini
• Wálter Machado da Silva

Deaths

• Enrique Mosconi
• Manuel Musto

Bibliography

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

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