Eva Perón named Spiritual Leader of the Nation
1952 · Event
Congress gives the dying Evita the title and votes a colossal monument; cities, stations and a province are renamed after her.
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More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
- Falklands War (1982)
Around 1952
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)