1958 in Argentina

Decades:	1930s ; 1940s ; 1950s ; 1960s ; 1970s ;
See also:	Other events of 1958 ; List of years in Argentina

Last updated January 31, 2025

The following events occurred in Argentina in the year 1958.

Incumbents

President :
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (until April 30)
- Arturo Frondizi (from May 1)^[1]
Vice President :
- Isaac Rojas (until April 30)
- Alejandro Gómez (until November 18)

Governors

Buenos Aires Province: Emilio A. Bonnecarrére (until 2 May); Oscar Alende (from 2 May)
Cordoba: Arturo Zanichelli (from month unknown)
Chubut Province: Jorge Galina (from month unknown)
Mendoza Province: Isidoro Busquets (until 1 May); Ernesto Ueltschi (from 1 May)
Santa Fe Province: Luis Cárcamo (until month unknown); Carlos Sylvestre Begnis (from month unknown)

Vice Governors

Buenos Aires Province: vacant (until 2 May); Arturo Crosetti (starting 2 May)

Events

February 14 – Prince Heinrich of Bavaria is killed in a car accident at San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes. His body is returned to Bavaria for burial.
February 23 – In the 1958 Argentine general election, the Intransigent Radical Civic Union wins 47% of the vote, on a record turnout of 90.9%, while its leader, Arturo Frondizi, is elected to the presidency.^[2]
April 3 – Bill Haley & His Comets play the first of a series of concerts in Buenos Aires.^[3]
May 1 – Arturo Frondizi is inaugurated as President of Argentina.^[1]
June 27 – The Peronist Party becomes legal again in Argentina, three years after being outlawed.
November 18 – Alejandro Gómez resigns as vice president after being expelled from his party.^[4]

Films

See List of Argentine films of 1958

Births

July 21 – Liliana Bodoc, fantasy writer (d. 2018)

Deaths

August 9 – Felipe Boero, composer (b. 1884)^[5]

Related Research Articles

Arturo Umberto Illia was an Argentine politician and physician, who was President of Argentina from 12 October 1963, to 28 June 1966. He was part of the Radical Civic Union, and the People's Radical Civic Union during his presidency.

José María Guido Cibeira was President of Argentina from 29 March 1962 to 12 October 1963, serving as the head of a provisional civilian government after the Argentine military overthrew President Arturo Frondizi. Guido's nineteen months in office were characterized by a severe economic recession, open conflict between competing factions within the armed forces, and anti-democratic measures including continued proscription of Peronists from Argentine politics. Yet Guido, with critical support from the "legalist" faction of the military, prevailed in his mission to return Argentina to constitutional government with a general election held on 7 July 1963.

Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup.

Oscar Eduardo Alende was an Argentine politician who founded the Intransigent Party.

The Intransigent Radical Civic Union was a political party of Argentina.

Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973.

The Argentine general election of 1963 was held on 7 July. Voters chose both the President and their legislators; with a turnout of 85.6%, resulting in the election of Arturo Illia as President of Argentina.

Rogelio Julio Frigerio was an Argentine economist, journalist and politician.

The Argentine general election of 1958 was held on 23 February. Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 90.6%.

The first Argentine general election of 1973 was held on 11 March. Voters chose both the President and their legislators.

Aldo Ferrer was an Argentine economist. He was one of the leading proponents of economic nationalism in Argentina.

Andrés Framini was an Argentine labor leader and politician.

The Argentine legislative elections of 1962 was held on 18 March. Voters chose their legislators and governors; with a turnout of 85.7%.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlos Raúl Contín</span> Argentine politician (1915–1991)

Carlos Raúl Contín was an Argentine politician and leader of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).

In Argentina, there were seven coups d'état during the 20th century: in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1976, and 1981. The first four established interim dictatorships, while the fifth and sixth established dictatorships of permanent type on the model of a bureaucratic-authoritarian state. The latter two conducted a Dirty War in the line of state terrorism, in which human rights were systematically violated and there were tens of thousands of forced disappearances.

The Federal Popular Union, formerly the Popular Union until 2020, is a centre-right political party in Argentina rooted in Peronism. Established by Juan Atilio Bramuglia as a contingency for Peronists displaced by the 1955 military coup against the populist President Juan Perón, it became a "neo-Peronist" alternative to the exiled leader's line, and subsequently, an alternative to the successive dominant factions in the Justicialist Party.

Alejandro Gómez was an Argentine educator and lawyer who served as the Vice President of Argentina.

Events in the year 1973 in Argentina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diógenes Taboada</span> Argentine politician (1887–1978)

Diógenes Taboada was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of the Interior under President Roberto M. Ortiz and as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Arturo Frondizi twenty years later.

The Argentine presidential line of succession is the order in which officials may assume the office of the president of Argentina in the case of vacancy due to illness, death, resignation or impeachment.

References

1 2 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960: American republics. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1986. p. 18.
↑ Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in the Americas. Oxford University Press, 2005.
↑ Bill Haley. Wagner Verlag sucht Autoren. p. 461. ISBN 978-3-86279-537-6.
↑ "Alejandro Gómez". Diccionario Biográfico nacional de la Unión Cívica Radical.
↑ Nicolas Slonimsky (21 October 1972). Music Of Latin America. Da Capo Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-306-71188-6.

This article about the history of Argentina is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[Frondizi-1] 1 2 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960: American republics. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1986. p. 18.

[2] Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in the Americas. Oxford University Press, 2005.

[3] Bill Haley. Wagner Verlag sucht Autoren. p. 461. ISBN 978-3-86279-537-6.

[4] "Alejandro Gómez". Diccionario Biográfico nacional de la Unión Cívica Radical.

[5] Nicolas Slonimsky (21 October 1972). Music Of Latin America. Da Capo Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-306-71188-6.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

v t e Years in Argentina (1816–present)
19th century	1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

v t e 1958 in South America
Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands