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| 1929 |
| | | An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1933 |
| | | 19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon | |
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| 1936 |
| | | US composer Aaron Copland writes El Salón México, using popular Mexican tunes | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Mexico, newly rich from oil, nationalizes the holdings of the foreign oil companies | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico | |
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| 1960 |
| | | 20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey | |
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