1956 in Argentina

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See also:	Other events of 1956 List of years in Argentina

Events in the year 1956 in Argentina.

Incumbents

• President: Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
• Vice President: Isaac Rojas

Governors

• Buenos Aires Province: Juan María Mathet (until 15 November); Emilio A. Bonnecarrére (from 15 November)
• Mendoza Province: Héctor Ladvocat (until 9 May); Isidoro Busquets (from 9 May)

Vice Governors

• Buenos Aires Province: vacant

Events

• January 22 – The Argentine Grand Prix is held in Buenos Aires and is won by Luigi Musso and Juan Manuel Fangio.
• March 5 – Enactment of Decree Law 4161/56^[1]
• June 9 – Juan Jose Valle launches a revolt against the government of President Aramburu. He and 26 others are executed after its failure.

Films

• La pícara soñadora, starring Alfredo Alcón and Mirtha Legrand
• El Último perro, directed by Lucas Demare and starring Hugo del Carril and Gloria Ferrandiz^[2]

Births

• April 6 – Sebastian Spreng, artist
• August 23 – Cris Morena, television producer, actress, television presenter, composer, musician, songwriter, writer, former fashion model and entrepreneur

Deaths

• March 22 - Eduardo Lonardi, former president of Argentina from September-November 1955
• April 3 – Carlos Ibarguren, academic, historian and politician (born 1877)
• June 12 – Juan José Valle, Peronist military officer, executed by firing squad (born 1896)^[3]

See also

• List of Argentine films of 1956

References

1. Robben, Antonius C.G.M. (2005). Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 27. ISBN 0-8122-3836-2.
2. "Festival de Cannes: El Último perro". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
3. Sarah Anne Schoellkopf (2008). Blurring the Binaries: Gender, Framing, Performance, and Memory in Argentina's Post-dictatorship Culture. University of California, Berkeley. p. 34.