Portal:Argentina/Anniversaries/January/January 7

• 1840: Death of Blas Parera, author of the music of the Argentine National Anthem.
• 1869: Birth of Julián Irízar, an admiral in the Argentine Navy, commander of the Uruguay Corvette in the 1903 rescue of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.
• 1919: A riot in Buenos Aires starts the Tragic Week.
• 1978: Birth of Emilio Palma, the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica, at the Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.