1940 in Argentina
# 1940 in Argentina

Events from the year 1940 in Argentina

## Incumbents

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

### Governors

* Buenos Aires Province:
   * until 7 March: Manuel Fresco
   * 7 March-13 March: Luis Cassinelli
   * 13 March-27 May: Octavio R. Amadeo
   * 27 May-4 June: Carlos Herrera
   * from 4 June: Octavio R. Amadeo
* Cordoba: Amadeo Sabattini then Santiago del Castillo
* Mendoza Province: Rodolfo Corominas Segura

### Vice Governors

* Buenos Aires Province: Aurelio Amodeo (until 7 March); vacant thereafter (starting 7 March)

## 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
