1973 in Mexico

Events in the year 1973 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Luis Echeverría
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
• Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
• Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
• Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
• Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez/Carlos Pérez Cámara/Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
• Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
• Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
• Colima: Pablo Silva García/Leonel Ramírez García
• Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
• Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
• Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero
• Hidalgo: Manuel Sánchez Vite
• Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
• State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
• Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
• Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI)
• Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
• Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías
• Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
• Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle/Mario Mellado García/Gonzalo Bautista O'Farril/Guillermo Morales Blumenkron
• Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez/Antonio Calzada Urquiza
• San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero/Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
• Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
• Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna/Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres
• Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
• Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
• Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
• Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
• Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
• Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
• Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez

Events

• January 30: The 7.5 Colima earthquake causes 56 deaths, 390 injuries, and a non-destructive tsunami in Mexico.
• June 16: The Brothers Serdán Baseball stadium opens.
• June 19: Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established.
• June 20: Aeroméxico Flight 229.
• July 1: 1973 Mexican legislative election.
• August 28: 1973 Veracruz earthquake.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Pablo E. Macías Valenzuela

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1973.

Sport

• 1972–73 Mexican Primera División season.
• Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
• Lobos de Tlaxcala founded.
• Club Deportivo Tapatío is founded when CD Guadalajara buy a Tercera División license.

Births

• January 17 — Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican soccer player and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
• February 1 – Óscar Pérez Rojas, football goalkeeper
• February 3 – Ilana Sod, journalist
• February 22 – Mr. Niebla, (Efrén Tiburcio Márquez), wrestler; (d. December 23, 2019).
• May 20 — Patricia Navidad, actress and singer
• June 5 — Galilea Montijo, actress, comedienne, model, and TV presenter
• June 20 — Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of Jalisco 2018–2024
• June 22 — Jaime Camil, singer and actor
• August 16 — Mauricio Islas, actor
• September 19
• Javier Duarte de Ochoa, politician (formerly PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016, arrested for alleged corruption April 15, 2016
• David Zepeda, actor, model, and singer
• December 17 — Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla 2018 (d. 2018)

Deaths

• December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1890)

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