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Events in the year 1958 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (until November 30), Adolfo López Mateos (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (until November 30), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (starting December 1)
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo/Manuel Tello Baurraud
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Walter Cross Buchanan
• Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Roberto Gómez Maqueo/Héctor Meixueiro/Manuel Zermeño Araico
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Agapito Pozo Balbás

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
• Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sández
• Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
• Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio/Samuel León Brindis
• Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda
• Coahuila: Raúl Madero González
• Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
• 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: Francisco García Montero
• Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
• Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca
• Puebla: Fausto M. Ortega
• Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
• San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
• Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez
• Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
• Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
• Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata
• Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina
• Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco
• Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo/Agustín Franco Aguilar
• Zacatecas: Francisco E. García
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

Events

• Diego Rivera donates Frida Kahlo's childhood home and its contents in order to turn it into the Frida Kahlo Museum.
• The Aurrerá grocery chain starts operating.
• Hotel chain Camino Real Hotels is founded.
• July 6: 1958 Mexican general election.
• Conflicto_entre_Guatemala_y_M%C3%A9xico_(1958-1959)

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Heriberto Jara Corona

Births

• February 16 — Fernando Ortega Bernés, 16th Governor of Campeche 2009-2015
• April 30 — Guillermo Capetillo, bullfighter and voice actor
• May 3 — Rutilio Escandón, lawyer and Governor of Chiapas 2018-2024
• May 17 – Gus Rodríguez, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist (d. April 11, 2020)
• June 10 — Alfredo Adame, actor and producer
• June 22 — Rocío Banquells, Mexican pop singer and actress
• July 3 — Héctor Astudillo Flores, lawyer and politician (PRI), Governor of Guerrero starting 2015
• July 26 – Jesús Barrero, actor and voice actor (Saint Seiya) (d. 2016).
• September 27 – Faustino López Vargas, politician (d. 2022)
• October 3 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician (Deputy from the State of Mexico, 2009-2012) (d. 2018).
• October 5 — Manuel Landeta, singer and soap opera actor
• October 24 — José Manuel Mireles Valverde, doctor and paramilitary leader (d. 2020)
• November 14 — Sergio Goyri, actor
• Date unknown
  • Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer (d. 2017).

Deaths

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1958

Sport

• 1957–58 Mexican Primera División season.
• Leones de Yucatán win the Mexican League.
• Salamanca F.C. and Alacranes de Durango are founded.

References

1. Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. Muere Gus Rodríguez, escritor, conductor y gamer, confirmó su amigo Eugenio Derbez (in Spanish)
3. Evan C. Gutierrez. "Rocio Banquells". All Music.com. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
4. Senator from Tamaulipas, Faustino López Vargas dies in a car accident in Zacatecas
5. "Perfil del legislador". Sistema de Informacion Legislativa (in Spanish). Retrieved October 11, 2019.

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