1928 in Mexico

← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in Mexico → 1929 1930 1931
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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.

Births

• March 19: Josefina Leiner, actress (d. 2017).
• 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).
• August 11: Luis Enrique Gatica Silva (Lucho Gatica), Chilean-born bolero singer ("the King of Bolero"), film actor, and television host; (d. 2018 in Mexico City).
• December 25: Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora (d. 2017).
• Date unknown
  • Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician (d. May 20, 2018).
  • Trinidad Martínez Tarragó, Spanish-born economist, writer, and académic (d. July 5. 2018).
  • Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer (d. November 4, 2018)

Deaths

• February 10 – José Sánchez del Río, Mexican Cristero (b. 1913)
• February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1900)
• July 1 – Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Saint of the Cristero War (b. 1901)
• July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928 (b. 1880)[2]
• October 5 – Tranquilino Ubiarco Robles

References

1. "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
2. "Álvaro Obregón" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.