title: 1940 in Argentina
text: # 1940 in Argentina
  
  Events from the year 1940 in Argentina
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Roberto María Ortiz (UCR-A – Concordancia)
  * Vicepresident: Ramón Castillo
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province:
     * until 7 March: Manuel Fresco
     * 7 March-13 March: Luis Cassinelli
     * 13 March-27 May: Octavio R. Amadeo
     * 27 May-4 June: Carlos Herrera
     * from 4 June: Octavio R. Amadeo
  * Cordoba: Amadeo Sabattini then Santiago del Castillo
  * Mendoza Province: Rodolfo Corominas Segura
  
  ### Vice Governors
  
  * Buenos Aires Province: Aurelio Amodeo (until 7 March); vacant thereafter (starting 7 March)
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * Intervention of the Catamarca Province
  
  ### March
  
  * Intervention of the Buenos Aires province
  
  ### June
  
  * President Ortiz takes leave from work because of diabetes
  
  ### August
  
  * Construction of the first airplane made in Argentina, a curtiss 75
  * Ortiz, during his leave from work, offers his resignation to the Congress amid a political controversy. The Congress does not accept it.
  
  ### November
  
  * The Congress discusses a proposal for economic reactivation made by minister Federico Pinedo
  
  ### December
  
  * Juan Tonazzi is appointed minister of War. He rearranges the top military personnel, promoting supporters of Agustín Pedro Justo
  
  ### Date unknown
  
  * Radio El Mundo starts the radio drama Los Pérez García, which would last up to 1969
  
  ### Ongoing
  
  * Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 9 - Chunchuna Villafañe, model, actress and architect
  * April 30 - Ermindo Onega, footballer (died 1979)
  * May 15 - Carlos Bielicki, chess master
  * July 7 - Dora Baret, actress
  * August 17 - Eduardo Mignogna, film director and screenwriter (died 2006)
  * September 24 - Amelita Baltar, tango singer
  * October 17 - Carlos Heller, executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician
  * date unknown
     * Cacho Espíndola, actor
     * Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, journalist* Esteban Courtalon
  * Esther Norma Arrostito
  * Graciela Paraskevaidis
  * Guillermo José Garlatti
  * Guillermo Saucedo
  * Gustavo Bergalli
  * Horacio Usandizaga
  * Jesús Taboada
  * Jorge Ginarte
  * Jorge Kissling
  * José Rubinstein
  * Juan Carlos Maccarone
  * Juan Paletta
  * Juan Rosai
  * Leonardo Henrichsen
  * Luis Brandoni
  * Luis Cubilla
  * Maria Teresa Luengo
  * Mario Acuña
  * María Cristina Laurenz
  * Miguel Ángel Loayza
  * Nacha Guevara
  * Nestor Combin
  * Osvaldo Lamborghini
  * Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero
  * Raúl Zaffaroni
  * Roberto Matosas
  * Rodolfo Mederos
  * Román Quinos
  * Silvio Marzolini
  * Wálter Machado da Silva
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Enrique Mosconi
  * Manuel Musto
  