1964 in Mexico

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)
• 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