1959 in Mexico
Events in the year 1959 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Adolfo López Mateos
- Interior Secretary : Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Manuel Tello Baurraud
- Communications Secretary : Walter Cross Buchanan
- Education Secretary : José Ángel Ceniceros
- Secretary of Defense : Matias Ramos
- Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.- Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
- Baja California
- *Braulio Maldonado Sández
- Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
- Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis
- Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
- Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
- Durango: Francisco González de la Vega
- Guanajuato: J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
- Guerrero: Raúl Caballero Aburto
- Hidalgo: Alfonso Corona del Rosal
- Jalisco
- *Agustín Yáñez
- State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Prada
- Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez
- Morelos: Norberto López Avelar
- Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
- Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
- Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
- Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
- Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
- San Luis Potosí
- *Agustín Olivo Monsiváis
- Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
- Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
- Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo
- Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
- Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
- Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
- Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar
- Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
- Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu
Events
- January 1
- *The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers is formed.
- *President Adolfo López Mateos informs the nation that three Mexican fishermen were killed and 14 wounded by the Armed Forces of Guatemala on December 31, 1958.
- January 2 – The Foreign Ministry of Guatemala declares that the three Mexican fishermen killed on December 31, 1958, were "pirates."
- February 12 – Martín Luis Guzmán is named president of the Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos to provide books for elementary schools.
- May 23 – Pope John XXIII creates the dioceses of Diócesis de Tlaxcala and San Andrés Tuxtla.
- August 12 – The Mexican Academy of Sciences is founded.
- September 10 – MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX acquired the private company, Sheppard Hnos.
- September 15 – Cry of Dolores: President López Mateos announces the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Guatemala.
- October 10 – The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is established.
- October 23 to 29 – 1959 Mexico hurricane: An estimated 1,500 people died, principally in Colima.
- Date unknown – The motorcycle club Solo Angeles is formed.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara CoronaFilm
Births
- April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler.
- May 24 – José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla.
- August 27 — Daniela Romo, actress, singer, TV host
- September 6 — Fernando Ciangherotti, soap opera actor
- September 30 — Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Governor of Puebla starting 2019.
- October 5 — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
- October 7 – Brazo de Oro (wrestler)
- October 10 — Marcelo Ebrard, politician and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
- November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup;
- November 25 — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
- December 17 – Felicia Mercado, actress.
- Date unknown
- *Agustín Bernal, actor.
- *Tedi López Mills, poet.
- *Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist.
- *Gustavo Nakatani Ávila ("Yoshio"), singer
Deaths
- June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician
- July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre, 90, Roman Catholic nun, first female Mexican saint.
- December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat
Sport
- 1958–59 Mexican Primera División season
- The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League
- Mexico ends up 3rd out of 4 during the Panamerican Championship 1960 in Costa Rica.
- Club San Sebastián de León dissolves.