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Events in the year 1960 in Mexico.

Incumbents[]

Cabinet[]

Supreme Court[]

  • President:
See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

Governors[]

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

Population[]

  • 38,174,112 (19,156,559 women, 19,017,553 men)[3]

Events[]

  • January 1: Creation of ISSSTE, which provides health and other services for governmental employees.[4]
  • January 31: Estadio Jalisco with a capacity for 47,829 fans, opens in Guadalajara.[5]
  • February 18: The Latin American Free Trade Association is created by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Pero, and Uruguay in Montevideo. The LAFTA was replaced by the Latin American Integration Association in 1980.[6]
  • June 1: In a record that still stands, a 114-pound roosterfish was caught by fisherman Abe Sackheim at La Paz, Baja California Sur.[7]
  • August 25 to September 11: Mexico sends 69 athletes to the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Juan Botella (-1970) won a bronze medal in the men's springboard event.[8]
  • September 21: President Adolfo López Mateos nationalizes the electrical system.[9]
  • October 7: Isidro Fabela is awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor.[10]
  • Artist Lilia Carrillo marries Mexican abstract artist Manuel Felguérez in Washington, DC.
  • November 20: In honor of the 5oth anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the remains of president Francisco I. Madero are transferred from the French cemetery where he was buried to the Monument to the Revolution.[11]
  • December 30: 17-19 people are killed and 100 injured as the Mexican Army, under orders of the governor of Guerrero, open fire on striking students in Chilpancingo.[12]
  • Date unknown:
    • Ediciones Era is founded by Vicente Rojo Almazán, José Azorín; Tomás Espresate Pons, and his brothers.[13]
    • Painter and sculptor Pedro Coronel wins the José Clemente Orozco Prize at the II Inter-American Biennial in Mexico. Also in 1960 he exhibited 54 paintings and 8 sculptures at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.[14]
    • Gustavo Arias Murueta begins his artistic career.[15]
    • Artists Chucho Reyes and María Teresa Vieyra present an exhibition in the Colectiva de Artistas Noveles at the Galería Argos.

Awards[]

Movies[]

See also: List of Mexican films of 1960
  • Macario, a 1960 Mexican supernatural drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and starring Ignacio López Tarso and Pina Pellicer is the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.[16]
  • Pepe directed by George Sidney and starring Cantinflas is nominated for seven Academy Awards but is a failure at the box office.[17]
  • The Magnificent Seven is a western movie directed by John Sturges, set in a small village in Mexico, and filmed at Estudios Churubusco, Mexico City; in Cuernavaca and Tepoztlan, Morelos; in Durango, Durango; and localities in Sonora.[18]
  • To Each His Life (Spanish:Cada quién su vida), a drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Ana Luisa Peluffo, Emma Fink and .[19]

Sports[]

Music[]

  • Rock! was the debut album of , recorded at Discos Orfeón. It was the first Spanish-language rock LP and included songs such as Nena no me importa ("Baby, I don't care") by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Pedro Pistolas ("Peter Gunn") by Henry Mancini.[22]
  • Los Teen Tops, which included singer Enrique Guzmán, released their first single (78 rpm) in May, including La Plaga (Spanish adaptation of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly") and El Rock de la Cárcel (Spanish adaptation of Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock"), recorded at Columbia Records.[23][22]
  • Armando Manzanero recorded Voy a Apagar la Luz ("I'm going to turn off the light") in 1960.[22]
  • César Costa was a part of the group Los Camisas Negras, which recorded several singles and an LP on Musart, including El Tigre ("Tiger" by Fabian), Mona Lisa (originally by Carl Mann) and Osito Teddy Elvis's "Teddy Bear".[22]
  • Los Checkers were formed in 1960 and changed their name to Los Twisters in .[24]
  • Los Crazy Boys began in January 1960 under the leadership of Jesús Martínez “Palillo”. In May they recorded their first single, with Leroy and Trátame Bien ("Treat Me Well") Their first LP was recorded in November, and it was called, Rock con los Crazy Boys.[24]

Notable births[]

Notable deaths[]

References[]

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