1958 in Mexico

1958 in Mexico
Events in the year 1958 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (until November 30), Adolfo López Mateos (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo/Manuel Tello Baurraud
Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Roberto Gómez Maqueo/Héctor Meixueiro/Manuel Zermeño Araico
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás
Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sández
Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio/Samuel León Brindis
Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo/Agustín Franco Aguilar
Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu
Events
Diego Rivera donates Frida Kahlo's childhood home and its contents in order to turn it into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
The Aurrerá grocery chain starts operating.
Hotel chain Camino Real Hotels is founded.
July 6: 1958 Mexican general election.
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Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona
Births
February 16 — Fernando Ortega Bernés, 16th Governor of Campeche 2009-2015
April 30 — Guillermo Capetillo, bullfighter and voice actor
May 3 — Rutilio Escandón, lawyer and Governor of Chiapas 2018-2024
May 17 – Gus Rodríguez, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist (d. April 11, 2020)
June 10 — Alfredo Adame, actor and producer
June 22 — Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
July 3 — Héctor Astudillo Flores, lawyer and politician (PRI), Governor of Guerrero starting 2015
July 26 – Jesús Barrero, actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya) (d. 2016).
September 27 – Faustino López Vargas, politician (d. 2022)
October 3 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician (Deputy from the State of Mexico, 2009-2012) (d. 2018).
October 5 — Manuel Landeta, singer and soap opera actor
October 24 — José Manuel Mireles Valverde, doctor and paramilitary leader (d. 2020)
November 14 — Sergio Goyri, actor
Date unknown
Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer (d. 2017).
Deaths
Film
List of Mexican films of 1958
Sport
1957–58 Mexican Primera División season.
Leones de Yucatán win the Mexican League.
Salamanca F.C. and Alacranes de Durango are founded.
References
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