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
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes: Enrique Olivares Santana Baja California Eligio Esquivel Méndez (died in office, December 17. Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo (Substitute) 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
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)Fallece exdiputado morenista Luis Alegre Salazar; AMLO envía condolencias 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) 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
References