Portal:Argentina/Anniversaries/October/October 19

  • 1781 Juan Aguirre y López, Argentine revolutionary and politician is born in Buenos Aires. In 1820, he briefly served as interim Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, and was the last official to hold that title.
  • 1835 Manuel Quintana, President of Argentina is born.
  • 1836 Justo de Santa María de Oro, statesman and bishop and a representative to the Congress of Tucumán dies.
  • 1914 Julio Argentino Roca, army general and twice president of Argentina, dies.