title: 1959 in Mexico
text: # 1959 in Mexico
  
  Events in the year 1959 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): José Ángel Ceniceros
  * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): 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 (until November 12, 1959) Eligio Esquivel Méndez (starting November 13, 1959)
  * 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 (until February 28, 1959) Juan Preciado (starting March 1, 1959)
  * 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 (Interim) Francisco Martínez De La Vega (Substitute)
  * 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 (ISSSTE) 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 (Commission of Free Textbooks, CONALITEG) 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 Corona
  
  ## Film
  
  * List of Mexican films of 1959
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler (d. 2017).
  * May 24 – José Trinidad Zapata Ortiz, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla (starting 2014).
  * 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 (d. 2022).
  * October 5 — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
  * October 7 – Brazo de Oro (wrestler) (d. 2017)
  * October 10 — Marcelo Ebrard, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
  * November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player (defender) who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup; (d. 2018)
  * November 25 — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
  * December 17 – Felicia Mercado, actress.
  * Date unknown
     * Agustín Bernal, actor (d. 2018).
     * Tedi López Mills, poet.
     * Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist (d. 2017).
     * Gustavo Nakatani Ávila ("Yoshio"), singer (d. 2020)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician (b. 1882)
  * July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre ("María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament"), 90, Roman Catholic nun, first female Mexican saint.
  * December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat (b. 1889)
  
  ## 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.
  