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Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
Timeline of Events
1982
6.14.1982
The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
1983
10.30.1983
The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
12.5.1983
Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
12.10.1983
Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1991
3.26.1991
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
2000
10.6.2000
Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
2002
11.14.2002
Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
2005
12.15.2005
Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
2007
8.4.2007
Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
10.28.2007
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
11.23.2007
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There were no fatalities.