1969 in Mexico

1969 in Mexico
Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores
Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura
Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes:Francisco Guel Jiménez
Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez
Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans
Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre/Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
Colima: Pablo Silva García
Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno
Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón/Caritino Maldonado Pérez
Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero/Manuel Sánchez Vite
Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio
State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán/Carlos Hank González
Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt
Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo
Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández/Rafael Moreno Valle
Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez
San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero
Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna
Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez
Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa/Manuel A. Rabize
Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes/Ignacio Bonillas
Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal
Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías
Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
Events
Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
Treaty of Tlatelolco
Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales
Film
List of Mexican films of 1969
Sport
1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
1969 Mexican Grand Prix
May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.
Births
January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor
July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
Date unknown
Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.
Deaths
September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
References
Years in Mexico
Mexico