1962 in Mexico
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Events in the year 1962 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Adolfo López Mateos
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- 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
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes
- Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30)
- Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1)[1]
- Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
- Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu[2]
Events
- March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
- April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.
- May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.[3]
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya
Film
Sport
- 1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
- 1962 Mexican Grand Prix
- Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
- 1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.
Births
- April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015.
- May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor
- May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor (d. 2003)
- May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor
- May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress
- June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018
- August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017).
- August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
- August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
- August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012)[4]
- August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
- September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
- October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021
Deaths
- May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)[3]
References
- ^ Rodriguez Medina, Carolos Sinoe (7 November 2018). "» Enrique Olivares Santana: el hombre del siglo en Aguascalientes". Crisol Hoy (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Salmerón, Luis (2018-07-03). "¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jamarillo?] (in Spanish). Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.
- ^ "Felipe Calderón Hinojosa" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
