From: nagual@xochicalco.edu (Portuguese Proverb)
Subject: Tonalamatl/Tue. Sep 1, 1992
Reply-To: mexico-l@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx
Organization: Xochicalco University, Tijuana, BCN
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:03:43 GMT

    Today is the 245th day of 1992 with 121 remaining.
    The moon is a waxing crescent, moving towards its first quarter.
    The morning stars are Mercury and Saturn.
    The evening stars are Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Maya Long Count: 12. 18. 19. 7. 4.  BULUC Kan UUC Mol
Mexica: CHICUACE Tecpatl. MACTLACTIONCE Cuetzpallin Atemoztli CHICUACE
Otomi: RAHTO Aneyaxi. RETANRA Ambotaga. Aneandehe RAHTO
Purepecha Uexurini: 6 Tzhinapu. Huryiyata: 11 Uahtzaki. Kutsi: Peuanscuaro 6
Zapotec: TAPA Xoo. CHIJBITOBI Gueche. Cocijo: TOBI Chilla. Cocij: TOBI Gueche.
Martes 1 de Septiembre de 1992

Congress Opening Day
Former President's State of the Union Report

1610
    Jesuit missionary Hernando Gomez dies in Mexico City. In order
    to get closer to the natives, he learned the indigenous languages
    Otomi, Mazahua and Matlateca.

1821
    The Santa Fe Trail opens, with US colonists pushing further
    southwest into regions settled by Spanish and Mexicans.

1828
    Gen. Manuel Gomez Pedraza is elected President of Mexico.

    Mutiny of the Acordada. Vicente Guerrero becomes President by means
    of this mutiny against the elected President Manuel Gomez Pedraza.

1880
    President Diaz grants concessions to the railroad companies
    "Ferrocarril Central Mexicano" and "Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano"
    to develop and operate railroad service for the north of the country.

1882
    Composer Marcos A. Jimenez is born in Tacambaro, Michoacan.
    He was the author of "Adios, Mariquita linda" and others.

1911
    President F. I. Madero signs an agreement to grant land to the Yaqui
    Indians.

1925
    The Banco of Mexico is founded.

1928
    President Calles in his report of this date declares that Mexico has
    finished its stage of "Caudillos" (Leaders) and has entered an era of
    institutions.

1944
    Herminio Ahumada, president of the Chamber of Deputies, is voted out
    of office after making a vitriolic attack on the annual report to the
    Chamber by President Avila Camacho.

1956
    President Ruiz Cortinez in his state of the union report, informs the
    nation that economic recovery has been consolidated.

1957
    President Ruiz Cortinez informs that the Direction of the Social Security
    Insititute has opened sixteen clinics and seventeen hospitals for
    agricultural workers across the country.

1965
    President Diaz Ordaz in his state of the union report, pledges support
    of the Latin-American Free Trade Association, and praises the Alliance
    for Progress while restating his disapproval of US intervention in the
    Dominican Republic.

1966
    California grape pickers elect Cesar Chavez, leader of the Farm Workers
    Union, to represent them as chief bargaining agent.

1968
    After several student protests and with the Olympic games only 6 weeks
    away, President Diaz Ordaz warns that unrest would be stopped "to avoid
    any further loss of prestige".

1969
    President Diaz Ordaz decrees that Mexican citizenship is obtained
    at eighteen years of age.

1981
    President Lopez Portillo, on his annual address before the National 
    Congress, calls for a campaign against official corruption, which he
    calls a "cancer that runs the risk of devouring Mexico." The proposal
    for anticorruption legislation, which was unprecedented in Mexico, came
    at the end of a five year period where, in all 2,360 officials had been
    charged with illicit operations involving public money.
   
1982
    President Lopez Portillo issues a decree nationalizing the Mexican
    banking system in an attempt to stop the flight of capital.
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