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2012 Event - Mexico swears in its new President, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

2012 Event - Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico

2012 Event - Ahead of his cabinet and his December 1st inauguration, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico names his 'transition team'

2012 Event - The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

2012 Event - A large crude deposit of oil is found by Permex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, in the northern state of Tamaulipas; deposits could contain 250 - 400 million barrels of oil

2012 Event - Mexico's drug war continues in Monterey, when alleged members of the Gulf Cartel storm a bar in Monterey, killing 10 people

2012 Event - Mexico's state, Veracruz, experiences a natural disaster when Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall, killing at least three people

2012 Event - Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones

2012 Event - According to the U.S. Hurricane Center, Hurricane Bud has formed off of the Pacific Ocean's coast of Mexico, and has reached category two strength

2012 Event - In Mexico, thousands in Guanajuato, come out to greet Pope Benedict XVI at the start of his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America

2012 Event - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the border of Mexico's states Guerrero and Oaxaca

2012 Event - Josefina Vazquez Mota is the first woman ever endorsed by a major Mexican party to run for President of Mexico

2011 Event - Mexico's state of Guerrero is hit by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake

2011 Event - In Mexico, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, with flights expected to being by 2013

2011 Event - A state of emergency is declared by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal after Tropical Storm Lee in the northern Gulf of Mexico

2011 Event - A tourist boat travelling off the coast of Baja California in Mexico sinks; 23 people are reported missing

2011 Event - Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas

2011 Event - Thousands march in Mexico City to protest the 38,000 people who have died since the Mexican Drug War began in 2006

2011 Event - The North American winter storm causes persistent cold temperatures in Mexico and power outages in the U.S.

2010 Event - A sophisticated tunnel used by drug smugglers between Tijuana, Mexico and Otay Mesa, California, is discovered by U.S. Border Patrol

2010 Event - Mexico celebrates its 200-year anniversary marking its independence from Spain

2010 Event - Mexico's lead investigator of the 72 corpses found near the U.S. Texas border at Tamaulipas, has been missing for two days

2010 Event - The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico

2010 Event - BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig that has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history

2010 Event - In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP agrees to finance a $20 billion fund to compensate those whose livelihood has been damaged

2010 Event - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens sensitive marshes and wildlife along the Gulf Coast; Admiral Thad Allan is appointed to lead the Federal response to the spill

2010 Event - BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico

2009 Event - Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico

2009 Event - A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing

2009 Event - Concern about spreading influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries is expressed by the WHO

2007 Death - Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75

2003 Death - Joe Skeen, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003

1998 Death - Steven Schiff, Representative-R-New Mexico 1989 - 1998, died of Melanoma

1997 Event - Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico

1996 Event - Dallas Cowboys play Kansas City Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico

1996 Event - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake

1994 Event - Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico

1994 Event - 118 degrees F (47.8 degrees C) at Lakewood, New Mexico

1994 Event - 107 degrees F (41.6 degrees C) at Albuquerque New Mexico

1994 Event - 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico

1994 Event - Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57

1993 Event - Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

1992 Event - Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico

1991 Event - 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)

1991 Event - 22nd New York City Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28

1991 Event - Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17

1991 Event - Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe

1990 Death - Bobby Nunn, U.S. bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65

1989 Event - Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin

1988 Death - Luis Barragan, born in Mexico City, Mexico, architect, modernist, minimalist, important 20th century architect, significant landscape designer, self-taught, influenced by writings of Ferdinand Bac, dies

1988 Event - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico

1986 Event - KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB

1986 Event - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

1985 Event - Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed

1985 Event - 12,000 die and 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1)

1984 Event - Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die

1983 Death - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/president of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80

1982 Event - Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico

1982 Event - IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy

1982 Event - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico

1982 Event - Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks

1982 Event - Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico

1980 Event - Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US

1979 Event - D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8

1979 Event - Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage

1979 Event - Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4

1978 Birthday - Gael Garcia Bernal, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, actor, director, former model, films include, 'The Motorcycle Diaries', 'Babel'

1978 Birthday - Whitni Zimmerman, Miss New Mexico Teen USA 1996

1978 Event - New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)

1978 Birthday - Vicki Renee Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA 1997

1977 Birthday - Alejandro Hernandez, born in Tijuana, Mexico, tennis pro

1977 Birthday - Trisha Williams, Hobbs New Mexico, Miss America-New Mexico 1997

1977 Event - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

1977 Event - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico

1976 Birthday - Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer, Menudo-Cannonball

1975 Event - Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball

1975 Event - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives

1975 Birthday - Rebeca Tamez, Miss Mexico Universe 1997

1974 Death - Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62

1974 Birthday - Layla Linn, Miss New Mexico USA 1996

1973 Event - 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527

1973 Birthday - Ismael Valdes, born in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1973 Birthday - Neil Patrick Harris, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, actor, Doogie Howser MD

1973 Birthday - Antonio Osuna, Sinaloa Mexico, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1972 Event - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico

1972 Birthday - Juan Castro, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers

1972 Birthday - Francisco Cordova, born in Veracruz, Mexico, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1972 Birthday - Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri 1996

1971 Birthday - Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico 1997

1971 Birthday - Raul Marquez, Mexico, U.S. boxer 1992 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Vivian Y. Herding, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Miss America New Mexico 1996

1971 Birthday - Elmer Dessens, Hermosillo Mexico, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1970 Event - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico

1970 Birthday - Trent Dimas, New Mexico, gymnast, Olympics gold 92, 96

1970 Birthday - Chainey Umphrey, Albuquerque, New Mexico, gymnast, Olympics-5th-96

1970 Event - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City

1970 Event - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup, in Mexico City

1970 Birthday - Veronica Sanchez, born in Michoan, Mexico, WPVA volleyballer, Hermosa-17-1994

1970 Birthday - Luis Miguel, born in Vera Cruz, Mexico, spanish singer

1970 Birthday - Gloria Trevi, Mexico, sexy spanish vocalist, A Gatas

1969 Birthday - Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, born in Mexico, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1969 Death - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59

1969 Event - Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico

1968 Event - 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico

1968 Event - Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29'2 ") in Mexico City

1968 Event - 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico

1968 Event - Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed

1968 Birthday - Brian Wright, born in Stillwater Oklahoma, Canadian Tour golfer, 1991 New Mexico Open-2nd

1967 Birthday - Chris Patton, Fountain Inn, South Carolina, Nike golfer, 1993 New Mexico Charity Classic

1967 Birthday - Jana McCoy, Portales, New Mexico, Miss NM-America 1991

1967 Event - Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas

1967 Birthday - Dave Jareckie, born in Mexico City, Mexico, U.S. biathelete 1994 Olympics

1967 Birthday - Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico, tennis star

1967 Birthday - Vinny Castilla, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, infielder for the Colorado Rockies

1967 Birthday - Bart Bowen, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, cyclist 1996 Olympics

1967 Birthday - Townsend Saunders, White Sands, New Mexico, freestyle wrestler, Silver Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics

1967 Birthday - Kent Jones, Portales, New Mexico, golfer, NM State Amateur-1990-91

1966 Death - Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico

1966 Event - Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida and Mexico

1966 Birthday - Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants

1966 Birthday - Beth Coats, Albuquerque, New Mexico, biathelete 1994 Olympics

1966 Birthday - Armando Reynoso, San Luis Potosi Mexico, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies

1966 Event - KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting

1964 Birthday - James Martinez, Santa Fe, New Mexico, rower 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Arturo Huerta, born in Mexico, Canadian walker 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital

1964 Birthday - French Stewart, New Mexico, actor, Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun

1964 Birthday - Jeff Bezos, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founder, President of Amazon.com, previously a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw & Co.

1964 Birthday - Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star

1963 Event - IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Demi Moore, Guynes, Roswell, New Mexico, actress, Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane

1962 Birthday - Esteban Toledo, Mexicali, Mexico, Nike golfer, 1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd

1962 Birthday - Adam Kase, born in Socorro, New Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer, 1989 Alberta Open-3rd

1961 Event - U.S. performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)

1961 Birthday - Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer, 1995 Philippine Open

1960 Birthday - Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres

1960 Birthday - Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, actress, Capitol

1960 Birthday - Barbara Edwards, born in Albuqueque, New Mexico, playmate of year, Sept, 1983, actress

1960 Event - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico

1960 Birthday - Claudia Udy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, actress, Out of Control, Nightforce

1959 Birthday - Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, actress, Brenda-Capitol

1959 Event - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico

1959 Birthday - Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, actress, Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2

1959 Event - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area

1959 Birthday - Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, New Mexico, NFL defensive back, SF 49er

1959 Event - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico

1958 Birthday - Steven Glen Jones, Artesia, New Mexico, PGA golfer, 1988 AT&T Pebble Beach

1958 Event - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected President of Mexico

1958 Birthday - Ivar Sisniega, Mexico, pentathelete, Olympic-1980

1958 Event - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico

1958 Event - KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (PBS) begins broadcasting

1958 Death - Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash

1958 Birthday - Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist, Maria Bonita

1957 Event - 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico

1957 Birthday - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor, Posse, South Bronx Heroes

1956 Birthday - Ana Alicia Ortiz, Mexico City, actress, Melissa-Falcon Crest

1956 Birthday - Brian Baird, born in Chama, New Mexico, politician, Democratic party, U.S. House of Representatives from Washington's 3rd district

1955 Event - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico

1955 Event - 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)

1955 Birthday - Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer, Lucia es Luna Moreno

1955 Birthday - Paul Rodriguez, born in Culiacan, Mexico, comedian, actor, films include, 'A Cinderella Story', 'Lonely Street', 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'

1954 Birthday - Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer, Olympic-1968

1954 Event - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico

1953 Event - KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 Event - KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting

1953 Event - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 Birthday - Fausto Bara, Mexico, actor, Gaucho-Renegades

1952 Birthday - Veronica Judith Sainz Castro, Mexico, spanish singer and actress, Nana

1952 Event - Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico

1952 Birthday - Daniel Bautista, born in Mexico, 20k walker 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Birthday - Rudolfo Neri-Vida, Mexico, PHD/astronaut, STS-23

1952 Birthday - Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor

1951 Event - 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico

1951 Event - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico

1951 Birthday - Sidney M. Gutierrez, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-40, 59

1951 Birthday - Jorge Santana, born in Autlan, Jalisco, Mexico, musician, member of band Malo, recorded with Malo members to produce solo albums Jorge Santana, It's All About Love, plays green Frender Stratocaster guitar, recorded Santana Brothers album with brother, Carlos Santana, 1994

1951 Birthday - Felipe Munoz, Mexico, 200m backstroke swimmer, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1951 Event - -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)

1950 Birthday - Jorge Orta, born in Mazatlan, Mexico, professional baseball player, played second baseman, third baseman, outfield, played for the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays

1948 Event - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting

1948 Death - John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87

1947 Birthday - Bill Richardson, Representative-D-New Mexico 1983 - 1997, Governor of New Mexico 2003 -

1947 Birthday - Carlos Santana, born in Mexico, rock guitarist, Santana-Black Magic Woman

1947 Birthday - Steven Schiff, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-R-New Mexico 1989 - 1998

1946 Event - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico

1946 Birthday - Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president, Mexico, 1988 - 1994

1945 Event - 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico

1945 Event - 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico

1945 Birthday - Nuria Ortiz, born in Mexico, skeet shooter, Olympic-13th-1968

1943 Birthday - John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy'

1943 Birthday - Jeff Bingaman, born in El Paso, Texas, Senator-D-New Mexico 1983 -

1943 Event - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico

1943 Event - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico)

1942 Birthday - Eduardo Mata, Mexico City Mexico, conductor, Improvisaciones

1942 Event - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan

1942 Event - Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2

1941 Event - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico

1940 Birthday - Karen Shepherd, born in Silver City, New Mexico, Representative-D-Utah 1993 - 1995

1939 Birthday - Timothy E. Wirth, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Representative-D-Colorado 1975 - 1987, Senator-D-Colorado 1987 - 1993

1938 Birthday - Paul Benedict, Silver City, New Mexico, actor, Harry-Jeffersons

1938 Event - Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties

1938 Event - President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies

1937 Birthday - Jimmy Bowen, born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, record producer, pop music performer, famous for 'I'm Stickin' With You', produced chart hits for Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.

1937 Birthday - Freddie Fender, born in Mexico, country singer, Feelings

1937 Event - Mexico nationalizes oil

1936 Birthday - Richard Baker, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Zen teacher, Dharma Sangha

1935 Birthday - Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt, Santa Rita, New Mexico, astronaut, Apollo 17

1935 Birthday - Jorge Mester, born in Mexico City, Mexico, conductor, Louisville Orchestra 1967 - 1979

1934 Event - 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Orogrande New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)

1934 Event - General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico

1933 Birthday - Lori Nelson, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, actress, Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire

1933 Event - Temp reaches 136 degrees F (57.8 degrees C) at San Luis Potosi, Mexico (world record)

1933 Event - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans

1933 Birthday - Marco Antonio Munoz, born in Mexico, spanish singer, Murmullos

1933 Event - White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established

1929 Event - Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico

1929 Event - Mexico and Vatican sign Concord

1929 Birthday - John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico

1928 Death - Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated

1928 Birthday - Manuel Lujan, Jr., born in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, Representative-R-New Mexico 1969 - 1989

1927 Event - Telephone service begins between U.S. and Mexico

1927 Birthday - Joe Skeen, born in Roswell, New Mexico, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003

1927 Death - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86

1927 Event - U.S. and Mexico battle over oil interests

1926 Event - Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico

1925 Birthday - Kim Stanley, Patricia Reid, Tularosa, New Mexico, actress, Right Stuff

1924 Event - Calles becomes president of Mexico

1924 Event - General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico

1924 Birthday - Katy Jurado, Mexico, actress, High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo

1923 Birthday - Linda Christian, Tampico, Mexico, actress, Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone

1923 Event - Mexico and U.S. reaches accord over oil concession of 1917

1923 Birthday - Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett

1923 Birthday - Pete Domenici, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Senator-R-New Mexico 1973 - 2009

1923 Event - Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120

1923 Event - Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established

1922 Event - KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions

1922 Birthday - Jack Kerouac, Beat writer, On the Road, Mexico Blues

1922 Birthday - Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico

1921 Birthday - William Henry Mauldin, New Mexico, political cartoonist, Pulitzer-1945, 59

1920 Birthday - Ricardo Montalban, born in Mexico, American radio, television, film actor, Mr. Roarke in 'Fantasy Island' television show

1920 Birthday - Rodolfo Acosta, Chihuahua Mexico, actor, Passion, Littlest Outlaw

1920 Death - Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60

1918 Death - Carlos Guido y Spano, Arg poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies

1918 Event - 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)

1917 Birthday - Jan Clayton, Tularosa, New Mexico, actress, Ellen Miller-Lassie

1917 Event - AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I

1916 Event - U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico

1916 Event - General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos

1916 Birthday - Edward R. Roybal, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Representative-D-California 1963 - 1993

1915 Death - General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies

1915 Birthday - Anthony Quinn, born in Mexico, actor, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia

1915 Event - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die

1914 Event - U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico

1914 Event - Zapata and Pancho Villa over run Mexico

1914 Event - Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I

1914 Event - Mexico ends diplomatic relations with U.S.

1914 Event - U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months

1914 Event - Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico

1914 Birthday - Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat, Salamandra, Topoemas

1914 Event - U.S. Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"

1913 Event - Huerta elected president of Mexico

1913 Event - Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers

1913 Event - Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico

1913 Birthday - Richard Travis, born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, actor, Missile to the Moon

1913 Event - President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico

1912 Birthday - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, composer, Huapango

1912 Birthday - Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor, From Russia With Love

1912 Event - New Mexico becomes 47th state

1911 Event - Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico

1911 Event - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico

1911 Birthday - Cantinflas, Mario Moreno, Mexico, actor, Around World in 80 Days

1911 Event - Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz

1911 Event - President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends

1911 Birthday - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico

1910 Event - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

1910 Birthday - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico

1910 Birthday - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer, A la Patria

1908 Birthday - Arturo De Cordova, Rodriguez, Merida Mexico, actor, Medal for Benny

1907 Event - Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico

1906 Birthday - Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor, One Man's Family

1905 Birthday - Gilbert Roland, Luis Alonso, born in Juarez, Mexico, actor, Juarez, Barbarosa

1905 Birthday - Dolores Del Rio, born in Durango, Mexico, actress, What Price Glory?

1904 Birthday - Don Alvarado, Jose Page, Albuquerque, New Mexico, actor, Captain Thunder

1904 Birthday - Bruce Cabot, born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, actor, Diamonds are Forever, King Kong

1904 Birthday - Emilio Fernandez, born in El Seco, Mexico, director, La Choca, Flor Silvestre

1904 Birthday - Peter Hurd, Roswell, New Mexico, painter, Portrait of Jose Herrera

1903 Birthday - George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr, Don-Zorro

1902 Birthday - Luis Barragan, born in Mexico City, Mexico, architect, modernist, minimalist, important 20th century architect, significant landscape designer, self-taught, influenced by writings of Ferdinand Bac

1902 Birthday - Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor and writer, Dinner at the Ritz

1899 Birthday - Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro Mexico, composer, Sensemaya

1899 Birthday - Glenn Strange, Weed, New Mexico, actor, Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke

1899 Birthday - Carlos Chavez, born in Mexico City, conductor and composer, Sinfonia India

1899 Birthday - Ramon Novarro, Jose RG Samaniegos, Durango Mexico, actor, Ben Hur

1896 Birthday - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist, Lib of Chile

1895 Birthday - Mae Marsh, Madrid, New Mexico, silent film actress, Birth of a Nation

1895 Birthday - Nigel Bruce, born in Ensenada, Mexico, British actor, Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes'

1893 Event - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before

1892 Birthday - Edmund Cobb, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, western actor, Comanche Territory

1889 Event - Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city

1887 Birthday - Martin Luis Guzman, Mexico, novelist, Eagle and the Serpent

1886 Birthday - Diego Rivera, Lenin of Mexico, Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo

1883 Birthday - Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter, Epic of Culture in New World

1882 Birthday - Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer, Estrellita

1882 Birthday - Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher

1882 Birthday - Charles Trowbridge, Vera Cruz Mexico, actor, Fatal Hour

1881 Event - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico

1880 Birthday - Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24

1880 Death - [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60

1877 Event - U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1876 Death - Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79

1873 Birthday - Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president, 1911-13

1873 Birthday - Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist, The Flies, The Bosses

1867 Death - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies

1867 Event - Last French troops leave Mexico

1867 Event - Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico

1864 Event - Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

1864 Event - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico

1863 Event - Mexico City captured by French troops

1862 Event - Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico

1862 Event - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo

1862 Event - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)

1862 Event - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico

1862 Birthday - Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez, Mexico, composer

1861 Event - Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr

1861 Event - Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico

1861 Event - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops

1861 Event - CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory

1861 Event - Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform

1861 Event - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City

1859 Birthday - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico, 1915-20

1859 Event - U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform

1858 Event - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz

1854 Event - Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million

1854 Event - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico

1853 Event - Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico

1850 Event - Territories of New Mexico and Utah created

1848 Event - Mexico ratifies treaty giving U.S.; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million

1848 Event - Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war

1848 Event - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million

1847 Event - U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)

1847 Event - American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1847 Event - U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

1847 Event - U.S. defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento

1847 Event - Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans

1847 Event - Conspiracy in New Mexico against US

1847 Death - Governor Bent, 5 others in U.S. occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico

1846 Event - U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico

1846 Event - U.S. annexes New Mexico

1846 Event - General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico

1846 Event - California declares independence from Mexico in Sonoma

1846 Event - U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1846 Event - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-U.S. sends Mexico back to Rio Grande

1846 Event - Yucatan declares independence from Mexico

1845 Event - Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US

1840 Birthday - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico, 1864-67

1838 Event - Mexico declares war on France

1837 Event - "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)

1836 Event - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico

1836 Event - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico

1836 Event - Mexico attacks Alamo in the early morning

1836 Event - Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico

1832 Birthday - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat

1832 Birthday - Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico

1830 Birthday - Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, 1877-1911

1824 Event - Mexico becomes a republic

1823 Event - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico

1822 Event - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US

1822 Event - General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico

1821 Event - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw

1821 Event - Mexico declares independence

1821 Event - Mexico gains independence from Spain

1821 Event - Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 U.S. families to settle in Texas

1813 Event - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

1810 Event - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event

1806 Birthday - Benito Pablo Juarez, born in Oaxaca, Mexico, president of Mexico, 1858-72

1794 Birthday - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, 1833-36

1790 Event - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City

1783 Birthday - Agustin I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico, 1822-23

1651 Birthday - Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist, Primero Sueno

1596 Death - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico

1540 Event - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico

1536 Event - Mexico begins it's inquisition

1522 Event - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico

1521 Event - Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs

1520 Event - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes and Tlascala's vs Aztecs

1519 Event - 1st meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortes in Mexico

1519 Event - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs

1519 Event - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico

1519 Event - Cortez lands in Mexico













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