# 1979 in Mexico

Events in the year 1979 in Mexico.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: José López Portillo
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Jesús Reyes Heroles/Enrique Olivares Santana
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Santiago Roel García/Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Emilio Mújica Montoya
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Félix Galván López
* Secretary of Navy: Ricardo Cházaro Lara
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Pedro Ojeda Paullada
* Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
* Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
* Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
* Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
* Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera/Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
* Chiapas: Salomón González Blanco
* Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
* Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
* Colima: Salvador Gámiz Fernández/Griselda Álvarez
* Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez/Salvador Gámiz Fernández
* Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
* Guerrero: Flavio Romero de Velasco
* Hidalgo: Rubén Figueroa Figueroa
* Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
* State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
* Michoacán: Carlos Torres Manzo
* Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
* Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel
* Nuevo León: Pedro Zorrilla Martínez
* Oaxaca: Eliseo Jiménez Ruiz
* Puebla: Toxqui Fernández de Lara
* Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
* Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
* San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
* Sinaloa: Alfonso G. Calderón
* Sonora: Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
* Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
* Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
* Tlaxcala: Emilio Sánchez Piedras
* Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
* Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
* Zacatecas: Fernando Pámanes Escobedo
* Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González

## Events

* Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.
* Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara founded.
* University of the Cloister of Sor Juana established.
* February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.
* June 3: Ixtoc I oil spill
* July 1: 1979 Mexican legislative election
* September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)
* October 31: Western Airlines Flight 2605

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1979

## Sport

* 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season.
* Ángeles de Puebla win the Mexican League.
* 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City.
* 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Guadalajara.
* Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec founded.

## Births

* January 28: Melvin Brown, footballer
* February 13: Rafael Márquez, footballer and manager
* February 28: Amat Escalante, film director, producer and screenwriter
* March 1: Fernando Montiel, boxer
* March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.
* March 16: Daniel Osorno, footballer
* April 30: Gerardo Torrado, footballer
* May 15: Adolfo Bautista, footballer
* June 1: Mario Méndez, Mexican footballer
* July 21: Luis Ernesto Michel, footballer
* July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler (d. March 21, 2015).
* August 7: Juan Pablo Rodríguez, footballer
* August 28: Michel Franco, film director
* September 25: Karla Luna, actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer (d. September 28, 2017).
* September 29: Jaime Lozano, footballer and Current manager of the Mexican National Association Football team
* October 2: Francisco Fonseca, footballer and analyst
* October 14: Guillermo Pérez, taekwondo practitioner
* November 14 Miguel Sabah, footballer
* November 19: Michelle Vieth, American born Mexican actress and model.
* December 23: Jacqueline Bracamontes, Mexican actress and beauty contest winner (Nuestra Belleza México 2000).
* December 29: Diego Luna, actor, director, producer

## Deaths

* January 18 — María Dolores Izaguirre de Ruiz, First Lady of Mexico (1952-1958) (b. 1891)
* July 15 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños, President of Mexico 1964-1970 (b. 1911)