1969 in Mexico
Events in the year 1969 in Mexico.Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- Interior Secretary : Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mario Moya Palencia
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
- Communications Secretary :
- Education Secretary :
- Secretary of Defense :
- Secretary of Navy:
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
- Secretary of Welfare:
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Baja California:
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
Events
- Allende meteorite falls in Allende, Chihuahua.
- The Universidad Regiomontana, the Autonomous University of Nayarit and the University of Monterrey are established.
- Treaty of Tlatelolco
- Non-nuclear Proliferation Treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean
- March 31: Mina de Barroterán coal mine disaster
- June 4: Mexicana Flight 704
- June 27–30: The American rock group The Doors perform four concerts in Mexico City.
- September 4: Opening of the Mexico City Metro Line 1
Film
- List of Mexican films of 1969
Sport
- 1968–69 Mexican Primera División season
- 1969 Mexican Grand Prix
- May 31 – June 21: 1970 FIFA World Cup
- October 3 – 5: 1969 World Judo Championships held in Mexico City.
Births
- January 13 — Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- January 31 — Urbano Zea, swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics;
- June 17 — Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, lawyer and first female Governor of Sonora starting 2015
- June 29 — Guillermo Padrés Elías, Governor of Sonora 2009-2015. Arrested for embezzlement on November 10, 2016 and released on February 2, 2019
- April 21 — Carlos Mendoza Davis, lawyer and Governor of Baja California Sur starting 2015
- July 9 — Eduardo Santamarina, actor
- August 5 — Diego Schoening, singer, actor, television host
- September 1 — Armando Araiza, actor
- September 28 — Pedro Fernández, singer, songwriter, actor
- October 24 — Adela Noriega, actress
- Date unknown
- *Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez, Governor of Tlaxcala starting 2017.
- *Armando Mendoza Duarte, politician.
Deaths
- September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico