1985 in Mexico explained

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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• 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: Agustín 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).^[1]
• 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^[2]

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.^[3]
• October 6  - Sandra Góngora, ten-pin bowler^[4]
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cinta . Guillermo . Aniversario luctuoso de don Lauro . La Unión . August 28, 2020 . es-es . 24 July 2010.
2. Web site: ¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX . Sopitas.com . August 28, 2020 . es . 5 December 2018.
3. Web site: De 10. Los Bebes milagros de 1985...Mexico nunca pierde la esperanza. Sep 21, 2017 . Oct 13, 2019. es. The Miracle babies of 1985... Mexico never gives up.
4. Web site: Sandra Gongora . pwba.com . 26 November 2020.