From: nagual@XOCHICALCO.EDU (Dick J. Reavis)
Subject: Tonalamatl/Wed. Dec 23, 1992
Reply-To: Multiple recipients of list MEXICO-L <MEXICO-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Xochicalco University, Tijuana, BCN
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:01:55 GMT

    Today is the 358th day of 1992 with 8 remaining.
    The moon is new.
    The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter.
    The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn.

Maya Long Count: 12. 18. 19. 12. 17.  UUC-Caban MI Kankin
     Supplement: Day 1/30 of lunation number 1. Night Lord: Mictlantecuhtli.
Mexica: CHICOME-Calli. CHICOME-Ollin Tozoztontli MACTLACTLINAHUI
Otomi  Quenza: 7-Anegu. Mapa: 7-Anquitzhey. Cana: Antzhotho 14
Purepecha: CUIMU-Tzhinapu. YUNTZIMAN-Yurniri. Cuingo TENBENYUNTAMU
Zapotec Yza: 5-Quij. Chij: 7-Xoo. Cocijo: 1-Loo. Cocij: 1-Loo.
Miercoles 23 de Diciembre de 1992

Feast of the Radishes (Oaxaca)

1731
    An auto-da-fe against several natives takes place in Mexico City,
    even though natives were excluded from the Inquisition jurisdiction.
    
1813
    Insurgent forces are defeated in Valladolid (Michoacan).

1829
    An uprising in Mexico City occurs following the Plan of Jalapa which
    overthrows President Interim Jose Maria Bocanegra and gives
    power to Pedro Velez before Bustamante takes power next January, 1st.

1832
    Zavaleta Treaty. President Bustamante agrees with Santa Anna to
    resign to his post and allow Manuel Gomez Pedraza to assume it.

1845
    Philanthropist Fr. Nicolas Garcia de San Vicente dies in Mexico City.

1854
    Victoriano Huerta is born. Responsible for the overthrow of Francisco I.
    Madero's government in 1913, and self-imposed provisional president
    1913-1914.

1857
    After President Comonfort takes a military coup against himself in
    order to change to a Conservative government his title is disavowed by
    the government of Jalisco.

1888
    Bandit Heraclio Bernal ("Sinaloa Lightning") is killed near Cosala,
    Sinaloa.

    Intellectual Alfonso Teja Zabre is born in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato.

1931
    Diego Rivera's retrospective opens at the Museum of Modern Art (143
    paintings and works on paper; 8 'portable' fresco panels and 3 that
    treat NYC topics) and sets attendance records.

1944
    Exiled Basque, Catalan and Galician leaders announce in Mexico City the
    signing of a "pact of solidarity and alliance" to unify their efforts
    for overthrowing Gen. Francisco Franco's regime.

1947
    Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren's Telefonos de Mexico, S.A., takes
    over the Mexican Ericsson Telephone Co. in Mexico City. He will put the
    firm and the Mexicana Telephone & Telegraph Co., in which he already
    owns 49% of the stock, under one management for the first time.

    Scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories announce the invention of the
    transistor, a device which will revolutionize electronic circuit
    construction.

1950
    Pope Pius XII confirms that the tomb of St. Peter has been discovered
    beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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"Mexico has learned what its limits are, and how to live with them. I think
 that knowledge makes its people the wisest citizens in our hemisphere."
 -- Dick J. Reavis, _Conversations with Moctezuma_
 
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