Events in the year 1962 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): Jaime Torres Bodet
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Agustín Olachea
Secretary of Navy: Manuel Zermeño Araico/Antonio Vázquez del Mercado
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Salomón González Blanco
Secretary of Welfare: Javier Barros Sierra
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra
Governors
Aguascalientes
Luis Ortega Douglas (until November 30) Enrique Olivares Santana (starting December 1) Baja California: Eligio Esquivel Méndez Campeche: José Ortiz Avila Chiapas: Samuel León Brindis Chihuahua: Teófilo Borunda/Práxedes Ginér Durán Coahuila: Raúl Madero González Colima: Francisco Velasco Curiel Durango: Francisco González de la Vega/Rafael Hernández Piedras/Enrique Dupré Ceniceros Guanajuato: Juan José Torres Landa Guerrero: Arturo Martínez Adame Hidalgo: Oswaldo Cravioto Cisneros Jalisco: Juan Gil Preciado State of Mexico: Gustavo Baz Michoacán: David Franco Rodríguez/Agustín Arriaga Morelos: Norberto López Avelar Nayarit: Francisco García Montero Nuevo León: Eduardo Livas Villarreal Oaxaca: Alfonso Pérez Gasca/Rodolfo Brena Torres Puebla: Arturo Fernández Aguirre Querétaro: Manuel González Cosío San Luis Potosí: Manuel López Dávila Sinaloa: Gabriel Leyva Velásquez Sonora: Luis Encinas Johnson Tabasco: Carlos A. Madrazo Becerra Tamaulipas: Norberto Treviño Zapata Tlaxcala: Joaquín Cisneros Molina Veracruz: Antonio María Quirasco/Fernando López Arias Yucatán: Agustín Franco Aguilar/José Rodríguez Elías Zacatecas: Francisco E. García Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu
Events
March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established. May 23: Rubén Jaramillo is assassinated in Morelos by the Mexican Army.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Tereza Montoya
Film
List of Mexican films of 1962
Sport
1961–62 Mexican Primera División season
1962 Mexican Grand Prix
Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis Cup
1962 World Modern Pentathlon Championships are held in Mexico City.
Births
April 24 — Juan Manuel Carreras, Governor of San Luis Potosí starting 2015. May 7 — Ari Telch, soap opera actor May 13 — Eduardo Palomo, actor (d. 2003) May 17 — Arturo Peniche, soap opera actor May 31 — Victoria Ruffo, soap opera actress June 24 — Claudia Sheinbaum, scientist and Mayor of Mexico City starting 2018 August 7 – Miroslava Breach, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua) (d. 2017). August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, actor August 15 — Mario Anguiano Moreno, Governor of Colima 2009-2015 August 18 – Felipe Calderón, 56th President of Mexico (2006-2012) August 26 — Omar Fayad, Governor of Hidalgo starting 2016 September 23 — Alberto Estrella, actor October 23 — Quirino Ordaz Coppel, lawyer and politician (PRI); Governor of Sinaloa 2017–2021
Deaths
May 23 — Rubén Jaramillo, military and peasant leader in Morelos, assassinated (b. 1900)