Defense of Veracruz, civic holiday April 30 – Children's Day May 1 – Labour Day, statutory holiday May 5 – Cinco de Mayo, civic holiday May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's Birthday, civic holiday May 10 – Mother's Day May 15 – Teachers' Day May 23 – Students' Day June 1 – Mexican Navy Day, civic holiday June 17 – Father's Day June 21 – June solstice July 1 – 2018 Mexican general election September 13 – Anniversary of the "Heroic Cadets", civic holiday September 15 – Cry of Dolores, civic holiday September 16 – Independence Day, statutory holiday September 30 – José María Morelos's Birthday, civic holiday October 12 – Day of the Race, civic holiday November 1 – All Saints' Day November 2 – Day of the Dead November 19 – Revolution Day, statutory holiday December 1 – Presidential Inauguration Day December 12 – Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe December 16 to 24 – Las Posadas December 21 – December solstice December 24 – Christmas Eve December 25 – Christmas Day, statutory holiday Awards Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Carlos Páyan Order of the Aztec Eagle Pratibha Devisingh Patil, former President of India Jared Kushner, U.S. beneficiary of nepotism National Prize for Arts and Sciences Linguistics and literature – Angelina Muñiz-Huberman Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – Carlos Alberto Aguilar Salinas and Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora Technology and Design – Ricardo Chicurel Uziel and Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra Popular Arts and Traditions – Leonor Farlow Espinoza Fine arts – Ricardo Chicurel Uziel and Leticia Myriam Torres Guerra National Public Administration Prize Ohtli Award Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca Joseph I. Castro Deaths January January 1 Santiago Elias Castro Escobedo, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila; heart attack. Carlos Tirado Montero, 70, businessperson and politician (b. 1947). January 5 Glafiro Alanís Flores, 73, biologist and educator (author of El valor de nuestras plantas, and Flora nativa ornamental para Monterrey); illness (b. 1944). Isauro Medina Hinojos, 95, businessperson and former mayor of Parral, Chihuahua (b. 1922). January 6 Rubén Amaro Rodarte, 81, businessperson (b. 1936). Jose Gerardo Martinea, 35, journalist (El Universal; murdered during robbery. Enrique Caballero Vela, 65, actor; lumbar cáncer (b. 1952). Salvador Reyes Montellano, journalist. January 7: Roberto López y Garza ("Bob Logar"), 82, journalist and publicicist; heart attack (b. 1936). January 8 Salvador Borrego, 102, pro-Nazi journalist and writer (b. 1915). Francisco McManus Soto,