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v. t. e. Juan Domingo Perón (UK: / pɛˈrɒn /, US: / pɛˈroʊn, pəˈ -, peɪˈ -/ ⓘ, [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]Spanish: [ˈxwan doˈmiŋɡo peˈɾon] ⓘ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general, politician and statesman who served as the 35th President of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the ...
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician, who served three times as President of Argentina. Birth controversy [ edit ] Perón's date and place of birth (October 8, 1895, in Lobos ) are disputed by recent investigations by Hipólito Barreiro , who suggests October 7, 1893, in Roque Pérez .
On 16 June 1955, 30 Argentine Navy and Air Force aircraft bombed Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires' main square, killing over 300 civilians and wounding hundreds more. The attack remains to this day the largest aerial bombing ever executed on the Argentine mainland. The bombing targeted the adjacent Casa Rosada, the official seat of government, as a ...
v. t. e. Peronism, [a] also known as justicialism, [b] is an Argentine ideology and movement based on the ideas, doctrine and legacy of Argentine ruler Juan Perón (1895–1974). [1] It has been an influential movement in 20th- and 21st-century Argentine politics. [1] Since 1946, Peronists have won 10 out of the 14 presidential elections in ...
Argentina portal. v. t. e. In Argentina, there were six coups d'état during the 20th century: in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966 and 1976. The first four established interim dictatorships, while the last two established dictatorships of permanent type on the model of a bureaucratic - authoritarian state.
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo. The bombing of Plaza de Mayo was a massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 June 1955. Thirty aircraft from the Argentine Navy and Air Force bombed and strafed Plaza de Mayo. The attack targeted the adjacent Casa Rosada, the seat of government, while a large crowd demonstrated in support of the president, Juan Perón.
The Huemul Project (Spanish: Proyecto Huemul) was an early 1950s Argentine effort to develop a fusion power device known as the Thermotron. The concept was invented by Austrian scientist Ronald Richter, who claimed to have a design that would produce effectively unlimited power. Richter was able to pitch the idea to President of Argentina Juan ...
Military dictatorship established. The 1943 Argentine coup d'état (also known as the June Revolution or the Revolution of '43) was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president before succeeding to the presidency in 1942 [1] as part of the period ...