# 1973 in Mexico

Events in the year 1973 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Luis Echeverría
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
* Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
* Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
* Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
* Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez/Carlos Pérez Cámara/Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
* Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
* Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
* Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
* Colima: Pablo Silva García/Leonel Ramírez García
* Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
* Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
* Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero
* Hidalgo: Manuel Sánchez Vite
* Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
* State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
* Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
* Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI)
* Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
* Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías
* Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
* Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle/Mario Mellado García/Gonzalo Bautista O'Farril/Guillermo Morales Blumenkron
* Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez/Antonio Calzada Urquiza
* San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero/Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
* Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna/Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres
* Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
* Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
* Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
* Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
* Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
* Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
* Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez

## Events

* January 30: The 7.5 M$_s$ Colima earthquake causes 56 deaths, 390 injuries, and a non-destructive tsunami in Mexico.
* June 16: The Brothers Serdán Baseball stadium opens.
* June 19: Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established.
* June 20: Aeroméxico Flight 229.
* July 1: 1973 Mexican legislative election.
* August 28: 1973 Veracruz earthquake.

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Pablo E. Macías Valenzuela

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1973.

## Sport

* 1972–73 Mexican Primera División season.
* Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
* Lobos de Tlaxcala founded.
* Club Deportivo Tapatío is founded when CD Guadalajara buy a Tercera División license.

## Births

* January 17 — Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican soccer player and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
* February 1 – Óscar Pérez Rojas, football goalkeeper
* February 3 – Ilana Sod, journalist
* February 22 – Mr. Niebla, (Efrén Tiburcio Márquez), wrestler; (d. December 23, 2019).
* May 20 — Patricia Navidad, actress and singer
* June 5 — Galilea Montijo, actress, comedienne, model, and TV presenter
* June 20 — Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of Jalisco 2018–2024
* June 22 — Jaime Camil, singer and actor
* August 16 — Mauricio Islas, actor
* September 19
** Javier Duarte de Ochoa, politician (formerly PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016, arrested for alleged corruption April 15, 2016
** David Zepeda, actor, model, and singer
* December 17 — Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla 2018 (d. 2018)

## Deaths

* December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1890)