55 Facts About Evita Peron

Evita Peron's was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children.

Evita Peron's met Colonel Juan Peron on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina.

Evita Peron's ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Peron Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Evita Peron was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.

Evita Peron's was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.

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Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez claims that Evita Peron has never left the collective consciousness of Argentines.

Eva Evita Peron spent her childhood in Junin, Buenos Aires province.

Evita Peron's began to pursue jobs on the stage and the radio, and she eventually became a film actress.

Evita Peron devised a plan to have an "artistic festival" as a fundraiser, and invited radio and film actors to participate.

Evita Peron's referred to the day she met her future husband as her "marvelous day".

Juan Evita Peron later claimed in his memoir that he purposefully selected Eva as his pupil, and set out to create in her a "second I".

Evita Peron had come to politics late in life, and was therefore free of preconceived ideas of how his political career should be conducted, and he was willing to accept whatever aid she offered him.

Juan Evita Peron had made the suggestion that performers create a union, and the other performers likely felt it was good politics to elect his mistress.

President Pedro Pablo Ramirez became wary of Juan Evita Peron's growing power within the government and was unable to curb that power.

On 9 October 1945 Juan Evita Peron was arrested by his opponents within the government who feared that, with the strong support of his base, largely unskilled unionized workers that had recently moved from rural areas to industrialized urban centers and several allied trade unions, Evita Peron would attempt a power grab.

At 11 pm, Juan Evita Peron stepped onto the balcony of the Casa Rosada and addressed the crowd.

Crassweller writes that Juan Evita Peron enacted the role of a caudillo addressing his people in the tradition of Argentine leaders Rosas and Yrigoyen.

Evita Peron's had no political clout with any of the various labor unions, and she was not well liked within Peron's inner circle, nor was she even particularly popular within the film and radio business at that point.

On 18 October 1945, a day after he was released, Evita Peron married Eva discreetly in a civil ceremony in Junin.

The tour had its genesis in an invitation that the Spanish leader had extended to Juan Evita Peron; Eva decided that if Juan Evita Peron would not accept Franco's invitation for a state visit to Spain, then she would.

Evita Peron's received from Franco the highest award given by the Spanish government, the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

The cover's caption – "Eva Evita Peron: Between two worlds, an Argentine rainbow" – was a reference to the name given to Eva's European tour, The Rainbow Tour.

The ladies of the Sociedad were afraid that Evita Peron would set a bad example for the orphans; therefore, the society ladies did not extend to Evita Peron the position of president of their organization.

Fraser and Navarro counter these claims, writing that Ramon Cereijo, the Minister of Finance, did keep records, and that the foundation "began as the simplest response to the poverty [Evita Peron] encountered each day in her office" and to "the appalling backwardness of social services—or charity, as it was still called—in Argentina".

Toward the end of her life, Evita Peron was working as many as 20 to 22 hours per day in her foundation, often ignoring her husband's request that she cut back on her workload and take the weekends off.

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Eva Evita Peron has often been credited with gaining the right to vote for Argentine women.

Evita Peron's said her only ambition was that in the large chapter of history to be written about her husband, the footnotes would mention a woman who brought the "hopes and dreams of the people to the president", a woman who eventually turned those hopes and dreams into "glorious reality".

In Peronist rhetoric, this event has come to be referred to as "The Renunciation", portraying Evita as having been a selfless woman in line with the Hispanic myth of marianismo.

On 4 June 1952, Evita rode with Juan Peron in a parade through Buenos Aires in celebration of his re-election as President of Argentina.

Evita Peron was by this point so ill that she was unable to stand without support.

Evita Peron's took a triple dose of pain medication before the parade, and took another two doses when she returned home.

On 9 January 1950, Evita Peron fainted in public and underwent surgery three days later.

Only a few months after "the Renunciation", Evita secretly underwent a radical hysterectomy, performed by the American surgeon George T Pack, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in an attempt to eradicate her advanced cervical cancer.

In 2011, a Yale neurosurgeon, Daniel E Nijensohn, studied Evita's skull X-rays and photographic evidence and said that Peron may have been given a prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of her life, "to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness".

The crowd outside of the presidential residence, where Evita Peron died, grew dense, congesting the streets for ten blocks in each direction.

Morning after her death, while Evita Peron's body was being moved to the Ministry of Labour Building, 8 people were crushed to death in the throngs.

Biographer Julie M Taylor, professor of anthropology at Rice University, has said that Evita was well aware of the pain of being born "illegitimate".

Evita Peron's body was to be stored in the base of the monument and, in the tradition of Lenin's corpse, to be displayed for the public.

In 1971, the military found out that Evita Peron's body was buried in a crypt in Milan, Italy, under the name "Maria Maggi".

In 1973, Juan Evita Peron came out of exile and returned to Argentina, where he became president for the third time.

McManners claims that Eva Evita Peron consciously incorporated aspects of the theology of the Virgin and of Mary Magdalene into her public persona.

Additionally, Eva Peron has been featured on Argentine coins, and a form of Argentine currency called "Evitas" was named in her honour.

Kirchner says she does not want to compare herself to Evita Peron, claiming she was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history.

Kirchner says that women of her generation, who came of age in the 1970s during the military dictatorships in Argentina, owe a debt to Evita Peron for offering an example of passion and combativeness.

Taylor argues that the fourth factor in Evita Peron's continued importance in Argentina relates to her status as a dead woman and the power that death holds over the public imagination.

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Evita Peron's was by any standard a very extraordinary woman; when you think of Argentina and indeed Latin America as a men-dominated part of the world, there was this woman who was playing a very great role.

In 2011, two giant murals of Evita Peron were unveiled on the building facades of the current Ministry of Social Development, located on 9 de Julio Avenue.

In many of her speeches, Evita argued that it was the country's oligarchy that upheld antisemitic attitudes, but that Peronism did not.

Juan Evita Peron's opponents had from the start accused Evita Peron of being a fascist.

Evita Peron's was not a fascist—ignorant, perhaps, of what that ideology meant.

Governments that preceded Juan Evita Peron had been anti-Semitic but that his government was not.

Evita Peron's government was the first to court the Argentine Jewish community and the first to appoint Jewish citizens to public office.

Nicholas Fraser writes that Evita Peron is the perfect popular culture icon for our times because her career foreshadowed what, by the late 20th century, had become common.

Fraser writes that Evita Peron's story is appealing to our celebrity-obsessed age because her story confirms one of Hollywood's oldest cliches, the rags to riches story.

Eva Evita Peron appears on the 100 peso note first issued in 2012 and scheduled for replacement sometime in 2018.