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