1936 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1936 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Lázaro Cárdenas
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
• Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
• Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
• Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
• Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
• Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
• Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
• Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
• Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
• Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
• Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
• Jalisco: Everardo Topete
• State of Mexico: Eucario López
• Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
• Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
• Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
• Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
• Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
• Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
• Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
• San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
• Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
• Sonora: Ramón Ramos
• Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
• Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
• Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
• Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
• Zacatecas: Matías Ramos

Events

Main article: 1936

Popular culture

Sports

• Mexico wins a total of three bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.

Film

• Allá en el Rancho Grande , directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández; beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema ^[1]

Births

• 6 January – Rubén Amaro Sr., Mexican professional baseball player (d. 2017)
• 23 February — Manuel Bartlett, politician (PRI)
• 8 March – Mario Hernández, film director and screenwriter ^[2]
• 15 April – José Becerra, boxer
• 23 April — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician (PRI); Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001 (d. 2004)
• 8 May – Víctor Yturbe, singer (died 1987) ^[3]
• 19 September – Juliana González Valenzuela, Mexican philosopher
• 8 October – Rogelio Guerra, actor (d. 2018)
• 27 October – Enrique Canales, technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor (died 2007)
• Date unknown
  • Mario Stern, composer and académic (d. 2017).

Deaths

• 19 May – Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Archbishop of Mexico City (born 1876; colitis) ^[4]

References

1. "Por Fin: La Epoca de Oro 1936-1959" Archived 2017-01-11 at the Wayback Machine . http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx Archived 2010-02-02 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved March 9, 2011.
2. "Hernández Sepúlveda, Mario". escritores.cinemexicano.unam.mx. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
3. Details of Yturbe's murder
4. TIME Magazine. Milestones June 1, 1936