December

• 16 December: Unemployed activists and protestors demanding food from supermarkets cause several incidents in Greater Buenos Aires
  Greater Buenos Aires
  Greater Buenos Aires is the generic denomination to refer to the megalopolis comprising the autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the conurbation around it, over the province of Buenos Aires—namely the adjacent 24 partidos or municipalities—which nonetheless do not constitute a single administrative...
  
  .
• 18 December: Supermarkets and convenience stores start being looted in several places of Greater Buenos Aires and Rosario
  Rosario
  Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....
  
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• 19 December: President de la Rúa declares a state of emergency
  State of emergency
  A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, alert citizens to change their normal behaviours, or order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale...
  
  . Cacerolazo
  Cacerolazo
  A cacerolazo or cacerolada is a form of popular protest practised in certain Spanish-speaking countries – in particular Argentina and Chile – which consists in a group of people creating noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils in order to call for attention...
  
  s erupt in major cities. Minister Domingo Cavallo resigns.
• 20 December: Violent incidents in Plaza de Mayo
  Plaza de Mayo
  The Plaza de Mayo is the main square in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is flanked by Hipólito Yrigoyen, Balcarce, Rivadavia and Bolívar streets....
  
   between protestors and police, and in other parts of the country. 26 people die. The president resigns.
• 22 December: After Congress deliberations, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
  Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
  Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Páez Montero is an Argentine Peronist politician. He was the governor of the province of San Luis during several terms, and briefly served as President of Argentina.-Biography:...
  
   is appointed interim president.
• 30 December: Rodríguez Saá fails to obtain political support from his fellow party members, and resigns after only a week in office.

Deaths

• March 4: Gerardo Barbero
  Gerardo Barbero
  Gerardo Barbero was an Argentine chess grandmaster. He was born in Lanús, Buenos Aires, and raised in Rosario, Santa Fe....
  
   (b. 1961), chess grandmaster
• October 3: Gregorio Peralta
  Gregorio Peralta
  Gregorio Manuel Peralta , better known as Gregorio "Goyo" Peralta, was a top Argentine boxer. Peralta enjoyed success as a both a light heavyweight and a heavyweight, one of a select group Latin American Heavyweights to attain world-class status...
  
   (b. 1935), heavyweight boxer

Sports

See worldwide 2001 in sports

2001 in sports

2001 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.-Alpine skiing:* Alpine Skiing World Cup** Men's overall season champion: Hermann Maier, Austria** Women's overall season champion: Janica Kostelić, Croatia-American football:...