1955 in Mexico

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See also:	Other events of 1955 List of years 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):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

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.

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 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
• 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)[1]
• 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)[2]
• October 13 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)[3]

References

1. "Fallece Rogelio Padilla, director de MAMA A.C", Notisistema (in Spanish), Jan 23, 2018, retrieved Oct 6, 2019
2. "Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biografía y Gobierno" [Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biography and Government] (in Spanish). lifeder,com. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
3. "Manuel Ávila Camacho" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved May 29, 2019.