From: nagual@XOCHICALCO.EDU (Charlton Heston)
Subject: Tonalamatl/Tue. Dec 29, 1992
Reply-To: Multiple recipients of list MEXICO-L <MEXICO-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Xochicalco University, Tijuana, BCN
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:05:28 GMT

    Today is the 364th day of 1992 with 2 remaining.
    The moon is a waxing crescent, moving towards its first quarter.
    The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter.
    The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn.

Maya Long Count: 12. 18. 19. 13. 3.  13-Akbal  6 Kankin
     Supplement: Day 7/30 of lunation number 1. Night Lord: Iztli.
Mexica: CHICOME-Calli. MACTLACTLIYEI-Calli Tozoztontli CEMPOHUALLI
Otomi: YOHTO-Anegu. RETAHIU-Anegu. Antzhotho NRAHTE
Purepecha: CUIMU-Tzhinapu. TEMBENTANIMU-Kuahta. Nemonscuaro YUMU
Zapotec Yza: 5-Quij. Chij: 13-Guela. Cocijo: 1-Loo. Cocij: 1-Loo.
Martes 29 de Diciembre de 1992

1529
    According to some sources, last Mexic tlatoani Cuauhtemoc is buried in the
    altar of the church of Ixcateopan, Guerrero, by Fr. Toribio Benavente.

1555
    The first technique to benefit metals by amalgamation used in New Spain
    is explained in a manuscript of Bartolome de Medina. The technique was
    employed to extract silver using mercury and was exported to South America
    and replaced by the method currently employed three centuries later.
    However, Spain immediately appropriated the process, and literally
    prevented New Spain from refining her own silver with her own mercury,
    by throttling the supply.

1827
    Vicepresident Nicolas Bravo, from the Scottish Masonic Rite, joins Plan
    of Montano directed to eliminate secret societies and specifically the
    York Rite.

1845
    US President Polk sends John Slidell to negotiate with Mexico the
    purchase of California and New Mexico.

    Texas joins the US as the 28th state.

1846
    US forces commanded by Z. Taylor occupy Victoria, Tamaulipas.

1859
    Ex-President and Revolution hero Venustiano Carranza is born in Cuatro
    Cienegas, Coahuila. Opposed Victoriano Huerta and proclaimed First
    Chief of Mexico, 1914.

1896
    Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros is born in Santa Rosalia de Camargo,
    Chihuahua. Siqueiros joined the constitutionalist army and participated
    actively in worker organizations and other political activities. He
    was noted for his social consciousness and was incarcerated several
    times because of his dissidence against the government. He was awarded
    Mexico's highest cultural prize, the National Prize for Art. He died
    in Cuernavaca, Jan. 6, 1974.

1933
    The medal "Order of the Aztec Eagle" is officially created to
    reward foreign personalities and friends of Mexico.

1943
    The National Union of Education Workers was formed with Luis Chavez
    Orozco as its first General Secretary.

1958
    Project HOPE, an organization for the promotion of world health, is
    founded.

1960
    The last descendant of don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Don Salvador
    Garcia de Leon Hidalgo y Costilla, 76, dies in Cuernavaca. He was a
    nephew great-grandson of the Priest from Dolores. Not one of his five
    sons and twenty grandsons would perpetuate the illustrious last name.

1975
    Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa resigns unexpectedly (replaced by Alfonso
    Garcia Robles) after receiving sharp criticism in the press for seeming
    to apologize to Israel for Mexico's recent (Nov. 10) UN votes for
    resolutions condemning Zionism, that created a tourism boycott of Mexico.

1982
    U.S. scientists unearth the oldest human bones yet found in North America
    near present-day Anzick, Montana. The human skeleton, estimated to be
    more than 12,000 years old, corresponded to a woman.

1983
    The US announces its withdrawal from UNESCO by the end of next year.
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"Regretfully, one of the things I didn't learn until after I had
 finished school was that history is not only the most important
 subject, in a certain sense it's the only subject."
 -- Charlton Heston