1962 in Mexico

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Events in the year 1962 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
• Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea
• 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

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes
  • Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30)
  • Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1)^[1]
• Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez
• Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
• Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
• Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda/Práxedes Ginér Durán
• Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
• Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
• Durango: Francisco González de la Vega/Rafael Hernández Piedras/Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
• Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
• Guerrero: Arturo Martínez Adame
• Hidalgo: Oswaldo Cravioto Cisneros
• Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado
• State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz
• Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez/Agustín Arriaga
• Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
• Nayarit: Francisco García Montero
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
• Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca/Rodolfo Brena Torres
• Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
• Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
• San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
• Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
• Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
• Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
• Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
• Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
• Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco/Fernando López Arias
• Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/José Rodríguez Elías
• Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu^[2]

Events

• March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
• April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.
• May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.^[3]

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1962

Sport

• 1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
• 1962 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
• 1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.

Births

• April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015.
• May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor
• May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor (d. 2003)
• May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor
• May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress
• June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018
• August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017).
• August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
• August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
• August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012)^[4]
• August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
• September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
• October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021

Deaths

• May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)^[3]

References

1. Rodriguez Medina, Carolos Sinoe (7 November 2018). "» Enrique Olivares Santana: el hombre del siglo en Aguascalientes". Crisol Hoy (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. Salmerón, Luis (2018-07-03). "¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jamarillo?] (in Spanish). Retrieved Dec 28, 2018.
4. "Felipe Calderón Hinojosa" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 30, 2019.