eva peron

     

Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas

Trivia about eva peron

  • Argentina cried for her when this former actress & first lady died of cancer in 1952
  • In 1951 she was nominated for vice president of Argentina, but was forced to withdraw from the race
  • Her 1951 book "La Razon de mi Vida" ("The Purpose of my Life") was once mandatory reading in Argentine schools
  • From 1952 to 1955 the Argentine city of La Plata was named temporarily for this woman
  • On July 26 this Argentinian first lady succumbed to cancer at age 33
  • In 1947 Francisco Franco honored this Argentine first lady with The Cross of Isabel the Catholic
  • At age 23 she was featured in Argentine radio soap operas; 4 years later she was first lady
  • Kept for years in her husband's dining room, her embalmed body was buried in Buenos Aires in '74
  • 1944:Radio actress, mid-20s, desires Argentinean VP for relationship
  • For a short time in the 1950s, La Plata, Argentina was named for her
  • Only religious music was broadcast on the radio for 2 weeks after her July 26, 1952 death in Buenos Aires
  • Before her time as a First Lady, this woman was a radio & film actress
  • This dropout & actress was married to the president of Argentina from 1946 to 1952
  • In the late 1940s she founded a female branch of her husband's political party in Argentina