1958 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1958 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (until November 30), Adolfo López Mateos (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• Diego Rivera donates Frida Kahlo's childhood home and its contents in order to turn it into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
• The Aurrerá grocery chain starts operating.
• Hotel chain Camino Real Hotels is founded.
• July 6: 1958 Mexican general election.

Births

• February 16 — Fernando Ortega Bernés, 16th Governor of Campeche 2009-2015
• April 30 — Guillermo Capetillo, bullfighter and voice actor
• May 3 — Rutilio Escandón, lawyer and Governor of Chiapas 2018-2024
• May 17 – Gus Rodríguez, 59, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist (d. April 11, 2020)
• June 10 — Alfredo Adame, actor and producer
• June 22 — Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
• July 3 — Héctor Astudillo Flores, lawyer and politician (PRI), Governor of Guerrero starting 2015
• July 26 – Jesús Barrero, actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya) (d. 2016).
• September 19 – Miguel Espinosa "Armillita",bullfighter from Aguascalientes City (d. 2017)
• October 3 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician (Deputy from the State of Mexico, 2009-2012) (d. 2018).
• October 5 — Manuel Landeta, singer and soap opera actor
• November 14 — Sergio Goyri, actor
• Date unknown
  • Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer (d. 2017).

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1958

Sport

• 1957–58 Mexican Primera División season.
• Leones de Yucatán win the Mexican League.
• Salamanca F.C. and Alacranes de Durango are founded.