On this day, 49 years ago, March 26, 1976 (February 26, 1976 in the lunar calendar), the army overthrew the Argentine regime. Mrs. Peron facing charges On March 26, 1976, two days after the overthrow of Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Peron in a bloodless coup, Army Major General Georges Rafael Wedra was elected president of the new military government. Madame Peron succeeded her late husband Juan Peron and became president in 1974. She was dismissed by the military government after she refused to resign under pressure from the military group. She is in custody and will be charged with official corruption. Since the coup, the military government has implemented military control laws, threatening the pro-Peron guerrillas with the death penalty. Labor laws, which kept worker leaders from arrest, were also repealed.