1954 in Mexico

1954 in Mexico
Events in the year 1954 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): Jose Angel Ceniceros
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
Secretary of Navy: Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: José María Ortiz Tirado
Governors
Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Aguascalientes: Benito Palomino Dena
Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
Colima: Jesús González Lugo
Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/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
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
Events
The Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque is established in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
The Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores is founded.
June 24/26: Hurricane Alice (June 1954)
December 8: The Autonomous University of Chihuahua is founded.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rosaura Zapata and Erasmo Castellanos Quinto
Film
List of Mexican films of 1954.
Sport
1953–54 Mexican Primera División season.
1954 Carrera Panamericana.
The 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games are held in Mexico City.
The United States defeat Mexico in the Americas Zone final of the Davis Cup.
The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
February 7: Club Celaya is founded.
August 28: Club Universidad Nacional is founded.
Births
January 26
Sebastián Ligarde, Mexican-American actor
Jorge Hernández Andrés, businessman and bullfighter (d. 2018).
February 20 — Jorge Torres López, politician (PRI) and Governor of Coahuila in 2011
May 13 — Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2005-2006
June 24 – Juan González Gómez ("Juan Cotz"), painter from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (d. 2017).
June 28 — Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, Governor of Puebla 2005-2011
July 11 — Alejandro Camacho, actor and producer
July 26 — Leonardo Daniel, actor and director
September 2 — Humberto Zurita, actor, director, and producer.
October 17 – Herón Escobar, politician (PT), deputy (2009-2012); (d. October 24, 2016).
November 3 – Carlos Girón, silver medal-winning diver in the 1980 Olympics. (d. January 13, 2020)
Date unknown
Deaths
March 30: Agustín Aragón León politician and philosopher (b. 1870)
References
Mexico