1955 in Mexico

1955 in Mexico
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
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
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)
October 15 – Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City (2000-2021); d. January 18, 2021
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)
October 13 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)
References