Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.
Incumbents Federal government President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez (until 10 November), Mario Moya Palencia (starting 11 November) Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Antonio Carrillo Flores Communications Secretary (SCT): José Antonio Padilla Segura Education Secretary (SEP): Agustín Yáñez Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos Secretary of Navy: Antonio Vázquez del Mercado Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco Secretary of Welfare: Gilberto Valenzuela/Luis Enrique Bracamontes
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes:Francisco Guel Jiménez Baja California: Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez Chiapas: José Castillo Tielemans Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre/Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño Colima: Pablo Silva García Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón/Caritino Maldonado Pérez Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero/Manuel Sánchez Vite Jalisco: Francisco Medina Ascencio State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán/Carlos Hank González Michoacán: Carlos Gálvez Betancourt Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado Nuevo León: Eduardo Elizondo Oaxaca: Víctor Bravo Ahuja Puebla: Aarón Merino Fernández/Rafael Moreno Valle Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna Tabasco: Manuel R. Mora Martínez Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa/Manuel A. Rabize Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes/Ignacio Bonillas Veracruz: Rafael Murillo Vidal Yucatán: Luis Torres Mesías Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González Regent of the Federal District: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
Events
Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua. The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established. Treaty of Tlatelolco Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean March 18: a mass shooting happenes at the Ethiopian embassy killing 4 and injuring 6 March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster June 4: Mexicana Flight 704 June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City. September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1
Awards Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Cámara Vales
Film
List of Mexican films of 1969
Sport
1968–69 Mexican Primera División season 1969 Mexican Grand Prix May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.
Births January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics; (d. 2018) June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015 June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009–2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019 April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015 May 9 — Benjamín Rivera, voice actor July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress Date unknown Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017. Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.
Deaths September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
References