Evita: Birth of a Legend (TRIH ep 494, part 1)
1919 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the life and early career of Eva Perón (Evita). They set Argentine context—mass immigration, Buenos Aires dominance, social inequality—and trace Eva Duarte’s impoverished upbringing in Los Toldos and Junín, the humiliation surrounding her father Juan Duarte’s death, and her move to Buenos Aires to pursue show business.
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Around 1919
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)