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Calling it a day at the Casa Rosada after working late into the evening of March 23, 1976, in the hope of averting an renewed business lockout, Perón celebrated her executive assistant's birthday with staff.

Alerted to suspicious military exercises, she boarded the presidential helicopter shortly after midnight.

It did not fly her to the Quinta de Olivos presidential residence as she intended ; but, instead to an Air Force base in nearby Jorge Newbery International Airport, where she was formally deposed and arrested.