1979 in Mexico
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Events in the year 1979 in Mexico.
Incumbents[]
Federal government[]
- President: José López Portillo
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): /Enrique Olivares Santana
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): /Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez
- Communications Secretary (SCT):
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
- Secretary of Navy:
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
- Secretary of Welfare: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
- Secretary of Public Education: Fernando Solana Morales
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
Supreme Court[]
- President of the Supreme Court: Agustín Téllez Cruces
Governors[]
- Aguascalientes: José Refugio Esparza Reyes
- Baja California: Roberto de la Madrid
- Baja California Sur: Angel César Mendoza Arámburo
- Campeche: Rafael Rodríguez Barrera/
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua: Manuel Bernardo Aguirre
- Coahuila: Oscar Flores Tapia
- Colima: /Griselda Álvarez
- Durango: Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez/
- Guanajuato: /
- Guerrero: Flavio Romero de Velasco
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco
- State of Mexico: Jorge Jiménez Cantú
- Michoacán:
- Morelos: Armando León Bejarano (PRI)
- Nayarit: Rogelio Flores Curiel
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
- Quintana Roo: Jesús Martínez Ross
- San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco: Leandro Rovirosa Wade
- Tamaulipas: Enrique Cárdenas González
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
- Yucatán: Francisco Luna Kan
- Zacatecas:
- Regent of Mexico City: Carlos Hank González
Events[]
- Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.
- Colegio Alemán de Guadalajara founded.
- University of the Cloister of Sor Juana established.
- February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.
- June 3: Ixtoc I oil spill
- July 1: 1979 Mexican legislative election
- September 14–21: Hurricane Henri (1979)
- October 31: Western Airlines Flight 2605
Awards[]
Film[]
Sport[]
- 1978–79 Mexican Primera División season.
- Ángeles de Puebla win the Mexican League.
- 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City.
- 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Guadalajara.
- Club de Fútbol Oaxtepec founded.
Births[]
- March 16: Adriana Fonseca, actress and dancer.[1]
- July 23: Perro Aguayo Jr., pro wrestler (d. March 21, 2015).
- September 25: Karla Luna, actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer (d. September 28, 2017).
- November 19: Michelle Vieth, American born Mexican actress and model.[2]
- December 23: Jacqueline Bracamontes, Mexican actress and beauty contest winner (Nuestra Belleza México 2000).
- December 29: Diego Luna, actor, director, producer
Deaths[]
- January 18 — María Dolores Izaguirre de Ruiz, First Lady of Mexico (1952-1958) (b. 1891)
- July 15 — Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños, President of Mexico 1964-1970 (b. 1911)[3]
References[]
- ^ "Adriana Fonseca participará en Tiempo final". El Universal (in Spanish). 15 March 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
- ^ "Michelle Vieth", Las Noticias Mexico.com (in Spanish), retrieved Aug 24, 2019
- ^ "De qué han muerto los ex presidentes de México" [What have the former presidents of Mexico died of?] (in Spanish). Capital Mexico. July 16, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
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