May 25 – President Héctor Cámpora is inaugurated, in the presence of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós. An estimated million people gather on the Plaza de Mayo to welcome him.[1]
June 20 – Ezeiza massacre: Former president Juan Perón returns to Argentina. His plane has to be redirected to a military airport because of fighting between armed Peronist factions that have massed to greet his arrival at Buenos Aires's main airport. This event, known as the Ezeiza massacre, left 13 dead and more than 300 injured.
July 13 – President Héctor Cámpora resigns from office to allow Juan Perón to return to power.
September 23 – Argentine general election, September 1973: The second general election is held, following the resignation of Vice President Vicente Solano Lima and Senate President Alejandro Díaz Bialet. The runners-up in the March elections — Ricardo Balbín (UCR) and Francisco Manrique (APF) — again accepted their respective parties' nominations, with Manrique obtaining the endorsement of the PDP and naming its leader as his running mate.[2]Juan Perón, with his wife Isabel Perón as his running mate, win with a record landslide on the same FREJULI umbrella ticket on which Cámpora had been elected only six months earlier.[3]
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