1964 in Mexico explained

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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Enrique Olivares Santana^[1]
• Baja California
  • Eligio Esquivel Méndez (died in office, December 17.^[2]
  • Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo (Substitute)^[3]
• 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^[4]

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)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: ÁVALOS ARIZMENDI . RODRIGO . Enrique Olivares Santana: dimensión ante la historia El Heraldo de Aguascalientes . El Heraldo de Aguascalientes . August 28, 2020 . es . 31 Mar 2019.
2. Web site: Madera Tribune 18 December 1964 — California Digital Newspaper Collection . cdnc.ucr.edu . Madera Tribune . August 28, 2020 . en . August 18, 1964.
3. Web site: Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo forjó instituciones: Historiador . Síntesis TV . August 28, 2020 . es . 24 July 2019.
4. Web site: Estrada . David . URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO . davidestrada.org . August 28, 2020 . es.
5. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/fallece-exdiputado-morenista-luis-alegre-salazar-amlo-envia-condolencias Fallece exdiputado morenista Luis Alegre Salazar; AMLO envía condolencias
6. Web site: Alpha Life.me. August 24, 2019. Erika Buenfil Net Worth & Biography. November 4, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201104000527/https://www.alphalife.me/erika-buenfil-net-worth-biography. dead.