1955 in Mexico

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Events in the year 1955 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
• Education Secretary (SEP): José Ángel Ceniceros
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matias Ramos
• Secretary of Navy: Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada/Roberto Gómez Maqueo
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Vicente Santos Guajardo

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Benito Palomino Dena
• Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
• Campeche: Manuel López Hernández/Alberto Trueba Urbina
• Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
• Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez/Jesús Lozoya Solís
• Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
• Colima: Jesús González Lugo/Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
• Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
• Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya/J. Jesús Rodríguez Gaona
• Guerrero: Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
• Hidalgo: Quintín Rueda Villagrán
• Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
• State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
• Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
• Morelos: Rodolfo López de Nava
• Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
• Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco/Raúl Rangel Frías
• Oaxaca: Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado/Manuel I. Manjardín/José Pacheco Iturribarría
• Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
• Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
• San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
• Sinaloa: Rigoberto Aguilar Pico
• Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
• Tabasco: Manuel Bartlett Bautista/Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
• Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
• Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
• Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
• Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo
• Zacatecas: José Minero Roque
• Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu ^[1]

Events

• The organization known as El Yunque was allegedly formed in this year.
• The Querétaro Intercontinental Airport is established.
• The Sonora Institute of Technology was founded as Justo Sierra Institute (Instituto Justo Sierra)
• July 4: 1955 Mexican legislative election.
• September 10–20: Hurricane Hilda (1955).
• 21–30: Hurricane Janet.
• December: Club de Yates de Acapulco opens its doors.

Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Erasmo Castellanos Quinto

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1955

Sport

• 1954–55 Mexican Primera División season.
• The 1955 Pan American Games take place in Mexico City.
• The Tigres del México win the Mexican League.

Births

• January 19 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
• January 26 – Lucía Méndez, soap opera actress, model, and singer
• May 11 – María Sorté, actress and singer
• May 22 – Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, Governor of Baja California 2013-2019
• May 25 – Andrés Mora, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame), (d. June 12, 2015).
• June 2 – Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila, anthropologist (d. 2008)
• July 26 – Rogelio Ortega Martínez, educator and interim Governor of Guerrero 2014–2015
• August 14 – Carlos Medina Plascencia, educator and Governor of Guanajuato 1991 – 1995
• September 21 – Rogelio Padilla, sociologist, activist for children's rights, founder of MAMA, A.C. (d. 2018) ^[2]
• October 15 – Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City (2000-2021); d. January 18, 2021 ^[3]
• December 10 – Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Governor of Guanajuato 2000-2006
• December 18 – Juan Molinar Horcasitas, politician (PAN), (d. May 20, 2015).
• December 28 – Enrique Moreno, Mexican-American lawyer (d 2019).

Deaths

• July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta, 38th President of Mexico (b. 1881) ^[4]
• October 13 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897) ^[5]

References

1. Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "Fallece Rogelio Padilla, director de MAMA A.C", Notisistema (in Spanish), Jan 23, 2018, retrieved Oct 6, 2019
3. "Bishop Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez [Catholic-Hierarchy]". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
4. "Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biografía y Gobierno" [Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biography and Government] (in Spanish). lifeder.com. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
5. "Manuel Ávila Camacho" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.