1979 in Mexico

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
March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.
July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler (d. March 21, 2015).
September 25: Karla Luna, actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer (d. September 28, 2017).
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)
References
External links
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