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Events in the year 1964 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Luis Echeverría Álvarez
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/José Gorostiza/Antonio Carrillo Flores
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan/José Antonio Padilla Segura
• Education Secretary (SEP): Jaime Torres Bodet/Agustín Yáñez
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea/Marcelino García Barragan
• 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/Gilberto Valenzuela

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Enrique Olivares Santana
• Baja California
  • Eligio Esquivel Méndez (died in office, December 17.
  • Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo (Substitute)
• Campeche: José Ortiz Avila
• Chiapas: Práxedes Ginér Durán
• Chihuahua: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
• Coahuila: Braulio Fernández Aguirre
• Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel
• Durango: Enrique Dupré Ceniceros
• Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa
• Guerrero: Raymundo Abarca Alarcón
• Hidalgo: Carlos Ramírez Guerrero
• Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado/José de Jesús Muñoz Limón
• State of Mexico: Juan Fernández Albarrán
• Michoacán: Agustín Arriaga
• Morelos: Emilio Riva Palacio
• Nayarit: Julián Gazcón Mercado
• Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal
• Oaxaca: Rodolfo Brena Torres
• Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre
• Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío
• San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila
• Sinaloa: Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
• Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson
• Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra
• Tamaulipas: Praxedis Balboa
• Tlaxcala: Anselmo Cervantes
• Veracruz: Fernando López Arias
• Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/Luis Torres Mesías
• Zacatecas: José Rodríguez Elías
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

• La Preparatoria Benemérito de las Américas is founded by Albert Kenyon Wagner and his wife, Leona Farnsworth Romney
• Amusement park La Feria Chapultepec Mágico opens its doors.
• Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo de Arte Moderno and the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum are established.
• 1964 Mexican general election

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Adrián Aguirre Benavides

Births

• February 4 — Luis Alegre Salazar, businessman and politician (d. 2022)
• June 13 — Edith González, actress and dancer (d. 2019)
• August 5
  • Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Governor of Hidalgo 2005–2011 and Secretary of the Interior 2012–2018.
  • Claudio Reyes Rubio, TV director (Televisa); auto accident; (d. 2017).
• August 11 — Héctor Soberón, actor
• October 9 — Guillermo del Toro, filmmaker (three Academy Awards), author, and actor.
• November 14 — Raúl Araiza, actor and TV presenter
• November 30 - Emmanuel Lubezki, Cinematographer (three Academy Awards)
• November 23 — Erika Buenfil, television actress (Tres Mujeres, Amores Verdaderos)
• Date unknown
  • Martín Barrón Félix, physicist and meteorologist (d. 2017)

Deaths

• August 12 — Isidro Fabela, judge, writer, publisher, Governor of the State of Mexico (PRI, 1942–1945), diplomat (b. 1882)

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1964

Sport

• 1963–64 Mexican Primera División season
• Football Club Petroleros de Ciudad Madero is founded
• 1964 Mexican Grand Prix
• Mexico at the 1964 Summer Olympics

References

1. ÁVALOS ARIZMENDI, RODRIGO (31 Mar 2019). "Enrique Olivares Santana: dimensión ante la historia | El Heraldo de Aguascalientes" (in Spanish). El Heraldo de Aguascalientes. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "Madera Tribune 18 December 1964 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Madera Tribune. August 18, 1964. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. "Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo forjó instituciones: Historiador". Síntesis TV (in Spanish). 24 July 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
4. Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
5. Fallece exdiputado morenista Luis Alegre Salazar; AMLO envía condolencias (in Spanish)
6. "Muere la actriz mexicana Edith González a los 54 años" [Mexican actress Edith González dies at the age of 54], El Pais (in Spanish), Madrid, June 14, 2019, retrieved Aug 24, 2019 (in Spanish)
7. "Guillermo del Toro biography", Tribute.ca, retrieved Aug 24, 2019
8. "Erika Buenfil Net Worth & Biography". Alpha Life.me. Archived from the original on November 4, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2019.

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