# 1956 in Mexico

Events in the year 1956 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: Roberto Gómez Maqueo
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Vicente Santos Guajardo

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Luis Ortega Douglas
* Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
* Campeche: Alberto Trueba Urbina
* Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
* Chihuahua: Jesús Lozoya Solís/Teófilo Borunda
* Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
* Colima: Rodolfo Chávez Carrillo
* Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez/Francisco González de la Vega
* Guanajuato: 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/David Franco Rodríguez
* Morelos: Rodolfo López de Nava
* Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
* Nuevo León: Raúl Rangel Frías
* Oaxaca: José Pacheco Iturribarría/Alfonso Pérez Gasca
* Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
* Querétaro: Juan C. Gorraéz
* San Luis Potosí: Manuel Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Rigoberto Aguilar Pico
* Sonora: Álvaro Obregón Tapia
* Tabasco: Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
* Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
* Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
* Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull /Antonio María Quirasco
* Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo
* Zacatecas: José Minero Roque/Francisco E. García
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* The Chemical Society of Mexico is formed.
* April 30: The opening of the Torre Latinoamericana.

## Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Gerardo Murillo ("Dr. Atl")

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1956

## Sport

* 1955–56 Mexican Primera División season
* The Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League.
* Mexico participate at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
* Establishment of the Mexican Center League.
* January 1: Club de Futbol Ballenas Galeana Morelos is founded.

## Births

* March 23 — Fidel Demédicis Hidalgo was a federal senator from Morelos (2012-2018)
* April 21 — Ángel Aguirre Rivero, constitutional Governor of Guerrero 2011–2014 and interim Governor of Guerrero 1996–1999
* May 8 — Javier Álvarez, composer (d. 2023)
* June 8 — René Juárez Cisneros, Governor of Guerrero 1999-2005 and current federal Senator (d. 2021)
* June 15 — Francisco Olvera Ruiz, Governor of Hidalgo 2011–2016
* June 22 — Manuel Saval, soap opera actor (Simplemente María (1989 TV series)) (d. 2009)
* July 31 — Laura Zapata, Mexican telenovela actress, singer and dancer
* August 15 – Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, engineer, architect, teacher, historian, painter, artist, and Catholic priest, best known for being the creator of "The Boat of the Faith" (d. April 18, 2016).
* September 8 – Ricardo Torres Origel, Mexican politician (PAN) Deputy (2000-2003) and Senator (2006-2012) from Guanajuato (d. April 24, 2016).
* October 13 — Ana Bertha Espín, actress
* October 19 — Francisco Rojas San Román, politician from the State of Mexico (d. 2018).
* Date unknown — Rosario Robles, politician, acting Mayor of Mexico City 1999-2000