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)
