1964 in Mexico

1964 in Mexico
Events in the year 1964 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Adolfo López Mateos (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/José Gorostiza/Antonio Carrillo Flores
Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan/José Antonio Padilla Segura
Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet/Agustín Yáñez
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea/Marcelino García Barragan
Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra/Gilberto Valenzuela
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes: Enrique Olivares Santana
Baja California
Eligio Esquivel Méndez (died in office, December 17.
Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo (Substitute)
Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
Chiapas: Práxedes Ginér Durán
Chihuahua: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
Durango: Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón
Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero
Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado/José de Jesús Muñoz Limón
State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán
Michoacán: Agustín Arriaga
Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
Oaxaca: Rodolfo Brena Torres
Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
Sinaloa: Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa
Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes
Veracruz: Fernando López Arias
Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/Luis Torres Mesías
Zacatecas: José Rodríguez Elías
Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu
Events
La Preparatoria Benemérito de las Américas is founded by Albert Kenyon Wagner and his wife, Leona Farnsworth Romney
Amusement park La Feria Chapultepec Mágico opens its doors.
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo de Arte Moderno and the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum are established.
1964 Mexican general election
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Adrián Aguirre Benavides
Births
February 4 — Luis Alegre Salazar, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
June 13 — Edith González, actress and dancer (d. 2019)
August 5
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Governor of Hidalgo 2005–2011 and Secretary of the Interior 2012–2018.
Claudio Reyes Rubio, TV director (Televisa); auto accident; (d. 2017).
August 11 — Héctor Soberón, actor
October 9 — Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker (three Academy Awards), author, and actor.
November 14 — Raúl Araiza, actor and TV presenter
November 30 - Emmanuel Lubezki, Cinematographer (three Academy Awards)
November 23 — Erika Buenfil, television actress (Tres Mujeres, Amores Verdaderos)
Date unknown
Martín Barrón Félix, physicist and meteorologist (d. 2017)
Deaths
August 12 — Isidro Fabela, judge, writer, publisher, Governor of the State of Mexico (PRI, 1942–1945), diplomat (b. 1882)
Film
List of Mexican films of 1964
Sport
1963–64 Mexican Primera División season
Football Club Petroleros de Ciudad Madero is founded
1964 Mexican Grand Prix
Mexico at the 1964 Summer Olympics
References
Years in Mexico
Mexico