1954 in Mexico

Events in the year 1954 in Mexico.

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• 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^[1]

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^[2]

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).^[3]
• 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)