1985 in Mexico

1985 in Mexico
Events in the year 1985 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Miguel de la Madrid
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles/Miguel González Avelar
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar
Governors
Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera
Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco/José Ramírez Gamero
Guanajuato: Agustin Téllez Cruces/Rafael Corrales Ayala
Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI).
Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez
Events
January 1, Querétaro state elections
June 17, Morelos I was the first communications satellite launch by Mexico.
July 7, state elections in Colima
September 19, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Mexico City.
The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.
November 26, on the STS-61-B mission Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican and second Latin American astronaut to reach into space.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Lavalle Urbina
Notable births
September 19 – Fourteen newborn babies survived the earthquake.
October 6 – Sandra Góngora, ten-pin bowler
October 15 – Sherlyn González, singer and actress.
December 11 – Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress.
Date unknown – Ricardo Domínguez, welterweight wrestler (d. 2017).
Notable deaths
An estimated 10,000 people died during the September 19 earthquake.
Sports
Mexico managed to win for the first time to Poland on 5 February when at the opening of Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro.
References
Years of the 20th century in Mexico
Mexico