1959 in Mexico

Events in the year 1959 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
• Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.

• Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
• Baja California
• Braulio Maldonado Sández (until November 12, 1959)<br>Eligio Esquivel Méndez (starting November 13, 1959)
• Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
• Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
• Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
• Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
• Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
• Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
• Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
• Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
• Jalisco
• Agustín Yáñez (until February 28, 1959)<br>Juan Preciado (starting March 1, 1959)
• State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
• Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
• Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
• Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
• Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
• Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
• Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
• Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
• San Luis Potosí
• Agustín Olivo Monsiváis (Interim)<br>Francisco Martínez De La Vega (Substitute)
• Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
• Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
• Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo
• Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
• Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
• Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
• Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar
• Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

• January 1
• The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) is formed.
• President Adolfo López Mateos informs the nation that three Mexican fishermen were killed and 14 wounded by the Armed Forces of Guatemala on December 31, 1958.
• January 2 – The Foreign Ministry of Guatemala declares that the three Mexican fishermen killed on December 31, 1958, were "pirates."
• February 12 – Martín Luis Guzmán is named president of the Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos (Commission of Free Textbooks, CONALITEG) to provide books for elementary schools.
• May 23 – Pope John XXIII creates the dioceses of Diócesis de Tlaxcala and San Andrés Tuxtla.
• August 12 – The Mexican Academy of Sciences is founded.
• September 10 – MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX acquired the private company, Sheppard Hnos.
• September 15 – Cry of Dolores: President López Mateos announces the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Guatemala.
• October 10 – The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is established.
• October 23 to 29 – 1959 Mexico hurricane: An estimated 1,500 people died, principally in Colima.
• Date unknown – The motorcycle club Solo Angeles is formed.

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1959

Births

• April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler (d. 2017).
• May 24 – José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla (starting 2014).
• August 27 — Daniela Romo, actress, singer, TV host
• September 6 — Fernando Ciangherotti, soap opera actor
• September 30 — Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Governor of Puebla starting 2019 (d. 2022).
• October 5 — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
• October 7 – Brazo de Oro (wrestler) (d. 2017)
• October 10 — Marcelo Ebrard, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
• November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player (defender) who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup; (d. 2018)
• November 25 — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
• December 17 – Felicia Mercado, actress.
• Date unknown
• Agustín Bernal, actor (d. 2018).
• Tedi López Mills, poet.
• Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist (d. 2017).
• Gustavo Nakatani Ávila ("Yoshio"), singer (d. 2020)

Deaths

• June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician (b. 1882)
• July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre ("María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament"), 90, Roman Catholic nun, first female Mexican saint.
• December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat (b. 1889)

Sport

• 1958–59 Mexican Primera División season
• The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League
• Mexico ends up 3rd out of 4 during the Panamerican Championship 1960 in Costa Rica.
• Club San Sebastián de León dissolves.

See also

• Mexico–Guatemala conflict

References