1973 in Mexico

1973 in Mexico
Events in the year 1973 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Luis Echeverría
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez/Carlos Pérez Cámara/Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
Colima: Pablo Silva García/Leonel Ramírez García
Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero
Hidalgo: Manuel Sánchez Vite
Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI)
Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías
Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle/Mario Mellado García/Gonzalo Bautista O'Farril/Guillermo Morales Blumenkron
Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez/Antonio Calzada Urquiza
San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero/Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna/Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres
Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez
Events
January 30: The 7.5 Colima earthquake causes 56 deaths, 390 injuries, and a non-destructive tsunami in Mexico.
June 16: The Brothers Serdán Baseball stadium opens.
June 19: Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established.
June 20: Aeroméxico Flight 229.
July 1: 1973 Mexican legislative election.
August 28: 1973 Veracruz earthquake.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Pablo E. Macías Valenzuela
Film
List of Mexican films of 1973.
Sport
1972–73 Mexican Primera División season.
Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
Lobos de Tlaxcala founded.
Club Deportivo Tapatío is founded when CD Guadalajara buy a Tercera División license.
Births
January 17 — Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican soccer player and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
February 1 – Óscar Pérez Rojas, football goalkeeper
February 3 – Ilana Sod, journalist
February 22 – Mr. Niebla, (Efrén Tiburcio Márquez), wrestler; (d. December 23, 2019).
May 20 — Patricia Navidad, actress and singer
June 5 — Galilea Montijo, actress, comedienne, model, and TV presenter
June 20 — Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of Jalisco 2018–2024
June 22 — Jaime Camil, singer and actor
August 16 — Mauricio Islas, actor
September 19
Javier Duarte de Ochoa, politician (formerly PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016, arrested for alleged corruption April 15, 2016
David Zepeda, actor, model, and singer
December 17 — Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla 2018 (d. 2018)
Deaths
December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1890)
References
External links
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