1969 in Mexico

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• 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

• Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
• The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
• Treaty of Tlatelolco
• Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
• March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
• June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
• June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
• September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1969

Sport

• 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
• 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
• May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
• October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.

Births

• January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
• January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018)
• June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
• June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009-2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
• April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
• July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
• August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
• September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
• September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
• October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
• Date unknown
  • Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
  • Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.

Deaths

• September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)