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| 1939 December 13 |
| | | The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled after a battle with Allied ships near the river Plate | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Power is seized in Argentina by a new military junta, the Group of United Officers | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Jorge Luis Borges publishes Fictions, a collection of short stories | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Juan Perón, professed friend of the poor in Argentina, is arrested by brother officers | |
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| 1945 |
| | | A mass demonstration by trade unions in Buenos Aires results in the release of Perón | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Perón, with the orchestrated support of gangs of thugs, is elected president of Argentina | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five Grand Prix world championship titles | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Eva Perón dies of cancer and achieves the status of a popular saint in Argentina | |
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| 1955 |
| | | A military uprising in Argentina forces Perón to resign and go into exile | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents | |
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