1928 in Mexico

← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in Mexico → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1928 List of years in Mexico

Events from the year 1928 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President:
  • Plutarco Elías Calles (until November 30)
  • Emilio Portes Gil (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• July 1: Álvaro Obregón is elected president for a second time.[1]
• July 17: José de León Toral, a Roman Catholic who supported the Cristeros assassinates Álvaro Obregón.[1]
• December 1: Emilio Portes Gil becomes president.

Sports

• 1927–28 Primera Fuerza season, won by Club América.
• Mexico at the 1928 Summer Olympics
• Mexico at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Births

• March 19: Josefina Leiner, actress (d. 2017).
• March 30: Lilia Prado, actress during the Golden Age of Mexican Cine; (d. 2006)
• April 23: Olga Harmony, playwright and drama teacher at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria; (d. 2018).
• April 28: Evangelina Elizondo, actress (Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), (d. October 2, 2017).
• May 24: Jacobo Zabludovsky, television anchor (24 Horas), (d. July 2, 2015).
• July 21: Josefina Echánove, actress, model and journalist
• August 23: Heberto Castillo, civil engineer and politician from Veracruz; (d. 1997)
• October 7: Sergio Corona, actor from Hidalgo
• October 24: Rafael Barraza Sánchez, bishop of Mazatlan (1981-2005), born in Durango; (d. 2020)
• December 25: Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora (d. 2017).
• Date unknown
  • Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician (d. May 20, 2018).
  • Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer (d. November 4, 2018)
  • Luisa Josefina Hernández, writer and playwrite

Deaths

• February 10 – José Sánchez del Río, Mexican Cristero (b. 1913)
• February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1900)
• April 22 – José Mora y del Río, Archbishop of Mexico, died in exile in San Antonio, TX; (b. 1854 in Michoacan)[2]
• July 1 – Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Saint of the Cristero War (b. 1901)[3]
• July 12 – Emilio Carranza, pilot (b. Coahuila 1905)
• July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928 (b. 1880)[4]

References

1. "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
2. "Archbishop José Mora y del Rio [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
3. "San Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Pbro | El Camino de los Mártires" (in Spanish). Camino de los Martires. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
4. "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.