1962 in Mexico
Events in the year 1962 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 : Jaime Torres Bodet
- Secretary of Defense : 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
- President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
- Aguascalientes
- *Luis Ortega Douglas
- *Enrique Olivares Santana
- 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
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.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza MontoyaFilm
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
- 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 .
- August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor
- August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015
- August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico
- August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016
- September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor
- October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician ; Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021
Deaths
- May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated