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Events in the year 1954 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): 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

• 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

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

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).
• 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)

References

1. Estrada, David. "URUCHURTU, EL REGENTE DE HIERRO". davidestrada.org (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. "Medalla Belisario Domínguez" (in Spanish). Senado de la Republica. 7 Oct 1954. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. "Muere el pintor Juan Gallo en su casa de Chiapas". January 2018.

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