1950 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1950 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Jaime Torres Bodet
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Agustín García López
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Gual Vidal
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gilberto R. Limón
• Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Salvador Urbina

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Jesús Maria Rodríguez Flores/Alberto del Valle
  • Campeche: Manuel López Hernández Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales
• Chihuahua: /Oscar Soto Maynez
• Coahuila: Raúl López Sánchez
• Colima: Jesús González Lugo
• Durango: Jose Ramon Valdes/Enrique Torres Sánchez
• Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
• Guerrero: Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla
• Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo
• Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo Vélez
• Michoacán: Daniel T. Rentería/Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
• Morelos: Ernesto Escobar Muñoz
• Nayarit: Gilberto Flores Muñoz
• Nuevo León: Ignacio Morones Prieto
• Oaxaca: Manuel Mayoral Heredia
• Puebla: Carlos I. Betancourt
• Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra
• San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres
• Sinaloa: Pablo Macías Valenzuela/Enrique Pérez Arce
• Sonora: Ignacio Soto
• Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
• Tamaulipas: Raul Garate
• Tlaxcala: Rafael Avila Bretón
• Veracruz: Angel Carvajal Bernal/Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
• Yucatán: José González Beytia
• Zacatecas: Leobardo Reynoso/José Minero Roque

Events

• June 4: The Diocese of Toluca is erected.
• September: The Viaducto Miguel Alemán is opened.
• October 30: The Autonomous University of Tamaulipas is established

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1950

Sport

• 1949–50 Mexican Primera División season
• Algodoneros del Unión Laguna win the Mexican League.
• July 8: Querétaro F.C. is founded
• December 26: Club Deportivo Zamora is founded

Births

• January 7 – Juan Gabriel, singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2016).
• February 10 — Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician and economist, assassinated while campaigning for President of Mexico (d. 1994)^[1]
• February 14 — Verónika con K, actress, singer and TV hostess
• February 28 — Jorge Rubén Nordhausen González, polítician (Senator, PAN) (d. 2018).
• May 15 – Beatriz Yamamoto Cázarez, politician, deputy from Guanajuato (2012-2015), d. February 8, 2021^[2]
• June 18 – Moisés Dagdug Lützow, radio-station owner (XEVX-am), politician, Deputy from Villahermosa, Tabasco (2006-2009); (d. 2016).
• August 21 — Carlos Miguel Aysa González, lawyer and interim Governor of Campeche starting 2019
• September 12 — Fernando Toranzo Fernández, Governor of San Luis Potosí 2009–2015.
• December 18 – Lizmark, masked wrestler (d. December 16, 2015).
• December 22 — Flavino Ríos Alvarado, politician ; interim Governor of Veracruz 2016
• Date unknown — María Loreto Elba Rojas Bruschetta, lawyer and judge in Puebla; (d. 2018)

Deaths

• Virginia Fábregas, film and stage actress

Notes and References

1. Web site: Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta. Busca Biografias. es. May 30, 2019.
2. Web site: SIL :: Sistema de Información Legislativa-PopUp Legislador . sil.gobernacion.gob.mx . March 11, 2021.