1939 in Bolivia

none February 20211939 Events in the year 1939 in Bolivia. Incumbents President: Germán Busch (until 23 August), Carlos Quintanilla (Interim president) (starting 23 August)Steinberg S. The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1952 2016 Springer 9780230270817 806 https://books.google.com/books?id=6tfMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA806 en Vice President: Enrique Baldivieso (PSU) (until 24 April), vacant (until 4 December), none (starting 4 December)Bolivia: Decreto Ley de 4 de diciembre de 1939 https://www.lexivox.org/norms/BO-DL-19391204-1.html 2021-03-10 www.lexivox.org Events 24 April – President Germán Busch dismisses the assembly and declares dictatorial rule.25 April 1939 TOTALITARIAN RULE DECREED IN BOLIVIA BY PRESIDENT, 35; Busch Assumes Dictatorial Powers, Doing Away With Congress and Basic Law (Published 1939) en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/25/archives/totalitarian-rule-decreed-in-bolivia-by-president-35-busch-assumes.html 24 October 2020 0362-4331 23 August – President Germán Busch commits suicide by gunshot. The armed forces appoints the commander-in-chief of the army General Carlos Quintanilla interim president.Conmoción y duda: ¿fue la muerte de Germán Busch un suicidio? https://www.paginasiete.bo/gente/2019/10/8/conmocion-duda-fue-la-muerte-de-german-busch-un-suicidio-233526.html 25 October 2020 www.paginasiete.bo es 7 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201007175228/https://www.paginasiete.bo/gente/2019/10/8/conmocion-duda-fue-la-muerte-de-german-busch-un-suicidio-233526.html dead 6 October – General elections are called for 10 March 1940.Bolivia: Decreto Ley de 17 de noviembre de 1939 https://www.lexivox.org/norms/BO-DL-19391117-4.html 2021-03-10 www.lexivox.org 4 December – The office of vice president is abolished by decree in order to circumvent claims of constitutional succession by former vice president Enrique Baldivieso. Births 15 April – Jaime Paz Zamora, 32nd Vice President of Bolivia, 60th President of Bolivia Deaths 1 May – Bautista Saavedra, 29th President of Bolivia (b. 1870) 23 August – Germán Busch, 36th President of Bolivia (b. 1904) 12 September – Eliodoro Villazón, 27th President of Bolivia, oldest living state leader to that point (b.1848) References 1939 in Category:1930s in Bolivia