1964_in_Mexico
1964 in Mexico
List of events
Events in the year 1964 in Mexico.
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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]
- 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
- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Adrián Aguirre Benavides
- February 4 — Luis Alegre Salazar, businessman and politician (d. 2022)[5]
- June 13 — Edith González, actress and dancer (d. 2019)[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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)[8]
- Date unknown
- Martín Barrón Félix, physicist and meteorologist (d. 2017)
- August 12 — Isidro Fabela, judge, writer, publisher, Governor of the State of Mexico (PRI, 1942–1945), diplomat (b. 1882)
- ÁVALOS ARIZMENDI, RODRIGO (31 Mar 2019). "Enrique Olivares Santana: dimensión ante la historia | El Heraldo de Aguascalientes" (in Spanish). El Heraldo de Aguascalientes. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- "Madera Tribune 18 December 1964 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Madera Tribune. August 18, 1964. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- "Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo forjó instituciones: Historiador". Síntesis TV (in Spanish). 24 July 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- "Muere la actriz mexicana Edith González a los 54 años" [Mexican actress Edith González dies at the age of 54], El Pais (in Spanish), Madrid, June 14, 2019, retrieved Aug 24, 2019 (in Spanish)
- "Guillermo del Toro biography", Tribute.ca, retrieved Aug 24, 2019
- "Erika Buenfil Net Worth & Biography". Alpha Life.me. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2019.