1985 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1985 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Daniel Díaz Díaz
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
• Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles/Miguel González Avelar
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos
• Baja California: Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI)
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot/Abelardo Carrillo Zavala
• Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas/Saúl González Herrera
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Elías Zamora Verduzco
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco/José Ramírez Gamero
• Guanajuato: Agustín Téllez Cruces/Rafael Corrales Ayala
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez (PRI). ^[1]
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
• Oaxaca: Heladio Ramírez López
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Mariano Palacios Alcocer
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Florencio Salazar Martínez
• Sinaloa: Francisco Labastida
• Sonora: Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Américo Villarreal Guerra
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez ^[2]

Events

• January 1, Querétaro state elections
• June 17, Morelos I was the first communications satellite launch by Mexico.
• July 7, state elections in Colima
• September 19, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Mexico City.
• The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.
• November 26, on the STS-61-B mission Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican and second Latin American astronaut to reach into space.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Lavalle Urbina

Notable births

• April 9 – Carlos Manzo, politician (d. 2025).
• May 31 – Zoraida Gómez, actress.
• September 19 – Fourteen newborn babies survived the earthquake. ^[3]
• October 6 – Sandra Góngora, ten-pin bowler ^[4]
• October 15 – Sherlyn González, singer and actress.
• December 11 – Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress.
• Date unknown – Ricardo Domínguez, welterweight wrestler (d. 2017).

Notable deaths

• An estimated 10,000 people died during the September 19 earthquake.

Sports

• Mexico managed to win for the first time to Poland on 5 February when at the opening of Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro.

References

1. Cinta, Guillermo (24 July 2010). "Aniversario luctuoso de don Lauro". La Unión (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "¿Los conociste?, ¿los recuerdas? Ellos fueron los regentes y jefes de Gobierno CDMX". Sopitas.com (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. "Los Bebes milagros de 1985...Mexico nunca pierde la esperanza" [The Miracle babies of 1985... Mexico never gives up]. De 10 (in Spanish). Sep 21, 2017. Retrieved Oct 13, 2019.
4. "Sandra Gongora". pwba.com. Retrieved 26 November 2020.