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Appearance
- 1759 Pedro Miguel Aráoz, statesman and priest and a representative to the Congress of Tucumán is born in Tucumán
- 1811 The Battle of Huaqui, between the Primera Junta's revolutionary troops and the royalist troops of the Viceroyalty of Peru on the border with Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia).
- 1820 Manuel Belgrano, leader in the Argentine War of Independence dies. This day is commemorated in Argentina as Flag Day.
- 1847 Juan Larrea, the last surviving member of the Primera Junta, commits suicide.
- 1944 Line E of the Buenos Aires Metro opens.