1973 in Mexico

Events in the year 1973 in Mexico.

Federal government

 * President: Luis Echeverría
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Mario Moya Palencia
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Emilio Óscar Rabasa
 * Communications Secretary (SCT): Eugenio Méndez Docurro
 * Education Secretary (SEP): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
 * Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
 * Secretary of Navy: Luis M. Bravo Carrera
 * Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
 * Secretary of Welfare: Luis Enrique Bracamontes

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court: Alfonso Guzmán Neyra

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Francisco Guel Jiménez
 * Baja California: Milton Castellanos Everardo
 * Campeche: Carlos Sansores Pérez/Carlos Pérez Cámara/Rafael Rodríguez Barrera
 * Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Suárez
 * Chihuahua: Oscar Flores Sánchez
 * Coahuila: Eulalio Gutiérrez Treviño
 * Colima: Pablo Silva García/Leonel Ramírez García
 * Durango: Alejandro Páez Urquidi
 * Guanajuato: Manuel M. Moreno/Luis H. Ducoing Gamba
 * Guerrero: Israel Nogueda Otero
 * Hidalgo: Manuel Sánchez Vite
 * Jalisco: Alberto Orozco Romero
 * State of Mexico: Carlos Hank González
 * Michoacán: Servando Chávez Hernández
 * Morelos: Felipe Rivera Crespo (PRI)
 * Nayarit: Roberto Gómez Reyes
 * Nuevo León: Luis M. Farías
 * Oaxaca: Fernando Gómez Sandoval
 * Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle/Mario Mellado García/Gonzalo Bautista O'Farril/Guillermo Morales Blumenkron
 * Querétaro: Juventino Castro Sánchez/Antonio Calzada Urquiza
 * San Luis Potosí: Antonio Rocha Cordero/Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez
 * Sinaloa: Alfredo Valdés Montoya
 * Sonora: Faustino Félix Serna/Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres
 * Tabasco: Mario Trujillo García
 * Tamaulipas: Manuel A. Rabize
 * Tlaxcala: Luciano Huerta Sánchez
 * Veracruz: Rafael Hernández Ochoa
 * Yucatán: Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
 * Zacatecas: Pedro Ruiz González
 * Regent of Mexico City: Octavio Senties Gomez

Events

 * January 30: The 7.5 Colima earthquake causes 56 deaths, 390 injuries, and a non-destructive tsunami in Mexico.
 * June 16: The Brothers Serdán Baseball stadium opens.
 * June 19: Autonomous University of Aguascalientes established.
 * June 20: Aeroméxico Flight 229.
 * July 1: 1973 Mexican legislative election.
 * August 28: 1973 Veracruz earthquake.

Awards

 * Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Pablo E. Macías Valenzuela

Film

 * List of Mexican films of 1973.

Sport

 * 1972–73 Mexican Primera División season.
 * Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
 * Lobos de Tlaxcala founded.
 * Club Deportivo Tapatío is founded when CD Guadalajara buy a Tercera División license.

Births

 * January 17 — Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican soccer player and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
 * February 1 – Óscar Pérez Rojas, football goalkeeper
 * February 3 – Ilana Sod, journalist
 * February 22 – Mr. Niebla, (Efrén Tiburcio Márquez), wrestler; (d. December 23, 2019).
 * May 20 — Patricia Navidad, actress and singer
 * June 5 — Galilea Montijo, actress, comedienne, model, and TV presenter
 * June 20 — Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Governor of Jalisco 2018–2024
 * June 22 — Jaime Camil, singer and actor
 * August 16 — Mauricio Islas, actor
 * September 19
 * Javier Duarte de Ochoa, politician (formerly PRI); Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016, arrested for alleged corruption April 15, 2016
 * David Zepeda, actor, model, and singer
 * December 17 — Martha Érika Alonso, Governor of Puebla 2018 (d. 2018)

Deaths

 * December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1890)