* 21 February — formation of the Argentine Football Association ( Asociación del Fútbol Argentino or AFA )

The first association football team in South America, Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata was created in Argentina in 1887, and the Argentine Football Association was founded in 1893.

Argentina confirmed on November 24, 2008, via representatives of the Argentine Football Association, that it would host the 2011 Copa América.

* Argentine Football Association

< small > < sup >(*)</ sup > Not recognized officially by the Argentine Football Association.

This title was declared official by the Argentine Football Association, thereby increasing the total number of amateur and professional titles to 51 ( 33 domestic and 18 international titles ).

The Argentine Football Association ( AFA ) was formed in 1893, and is the eighth oldest national football association in the world.

The Sydney Football Stadium has been the venue of some of Australian sport's greatest matches and moments such as the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Australia and Argentina featuring Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, finishing in a 1-1 draw with goals to Aurelio Vidmar for Australia and Abel Balbo for Argentina.

During the 2008 Summer transfer window, Costa was able – already as Director of Football – to sign a few well-known players, such as Argentine playmaker Pablo Aimar and bringing in Spanish left-winger José Antonio Reyes and Honduran striker David Suazo in on loan, thus gaining general praise from both board and fans alike.

The Argentine Football Association () is the governing body of football in Argentina.

The Argentine Association Football League ( in English ) was founded on February 21 1893 by Alexander Watson Hutton, considered " the father " of Argentine football.

The Argentine Association is the oldest in South America and one of the oldest to be formed outside Europe, later renamed Argentine Football Association in 1903, and translated into Asociación Argentina de Football ( Argentine Football Association ) in 1912.

The parallel Federación Argentina de Football ( Argentine Football Federation ), founded in 1912, joined the Asociación Argentina de Football, as well as did the 1919 founded Asociacion Amateurs de Football ( Amateur Football Association ) in 1926.

In November 2006, an Argentine judge issued an arrest warrant for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other ex-officials in relation to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association ( AMIA ) community center in Buenos Aires which killed 85 people.

Some of the most important political-pressure groups in Argentina include: the Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs ( CILFA ); the Argentine Industrial Union ( manufacturers ' association ); Argentine Rural Society ( large landowners ' association ); the Armed Forces ; the General Confederation of Labor or CGT ( Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization ); the Roman Catholic Church ; students.

In Which We Serve also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film ( beating Casablanca ) and the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Film in 1943.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor Nomination for Best Foreign Film ( 1992 )

* Argentine Arabian Horse Association

It is granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists.

The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina ( AMIA ; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association ) building.

On June 24, 2009, Sanford resigned as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, after he publicly revealed that he had engaged in an affair with María Belén Chapur, an Argentine woman.

While Luisi was still a student, Argentine liberal feminist Petrona Eyle wrote to her, in her capacity as president of the Universitarias Argentinas ( Argentine Association of University Women, affiliated with the American Association of University Women, or AAUW ), recruiting her to join the organization.

* Argentine Marine Corps Association

The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

* 2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.

* 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.

At the time, President Fernando Belaúnde Terry was receiving the Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín.

The Colorados favored the exiled Argentinian liberal Unitarios, many of whom had taken refuge in Montevideo, while the Blanco president Manuel Oribe was a close friend of the Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas.

* November 24 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president ( b. 1837 )

* October 3 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president ( d. 1885 )

* June 26 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, president of the Country ( d. 1906 )

Several members of the Argentine military junta have been found to be P2 members, such as Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973, Emilio Massera, part of Jorge Videla's military junta from 1976 to 1978, and José López Rega, the infamous founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A ").

This was the first time in decades that an Argentine president properly finished his term and passed on his charge to another democratically elected president.

He was president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860.

Although the president was Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at that point, Néstor Kirchner remained a highly influential figure in Argentine politics ; Kirchner died in October 2010.

Bernardino Rivadavia the first president of the Argentine Nation

This automatically made Kirchner president of Argentina, despite having secured only 22 % of the votes in the election, the lowest percentage gained by the eventual winner of an Argentine presidential election.

In a meeting with executives of multinational corporations on Wall Street — after which he was the first Argentine president to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange — Kirchner defended his " heterodox economic policy, within the canon of classic economics " and criticized the IMF for its lack of collaboration with the Argentine recovery.

Although Kirchner was to the left of previous Argentine presidents, from Raúl Alfonsín to Eduardo Duhalde, and contemporary Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he was to the right of other Latin American presidents as Hugo Chávez or Fidel Castro.

Factional disputes within Uruguay led Argentine leader Juan Manuel de Rosas to support his friend the deposed Uruguayan president Manuel Oribe in the civil war between the Blancos ( supporting Oribe ) and the Colorados.

Between 2001 and 2007 she was married to former Argentine president Carlos Menem.

On 26 May 2001, Bolocco married former Argentine president Carlos Menem in La Rioja, Argentina, whom she met while interviewing him at the Casa Rosada presidential house in Argentina.

A descendant of an early Argentine patriot, he married the daughter of president Roque Sáenz Peña.

The Argentine president Fernando De la Rúa resigned after the riots of 2001.

Facing mounting pressure and 18 % approval ratings, on March 19, 2001, the president reached out to Domingo Cavallo, the economist behind the " Argentine miracle " during the early 1990s.