1951 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 1951 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Manuel Tello Baurraud/Luis Padilla Nervo
• 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: Edmundo Gámez Orozco
• Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
• Chiapas: Francisco J. Grajales
• Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
• Coahuila: Raúl López Sánchez/Ramón Cepeda López
• Colima: Jesús González Lugo
• Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
• Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
• Guerrero: Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla/Alejandro Gómez Maganda
• Hidalgo: Vicente Aguirre del Castillo/Vicente Aguirre del Castillo
• Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo Vélez/Salvador Sánchez Colín
• Michoacán: 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/Rafael Ávila Camacho
• Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra
• San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres
  • Sinaloa: Enrique Pérez Arce Sonora: Ignacio Soto
• Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
• Tamaulipas: Raúl Garate/Horacio Terán
  • Tlaxcala: Rafael Avila Bretón/Felipe Mazarraza Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
• Yucatán: José González Beytia/Humberto Esquivel Medina
• Zacatecas: José Minero Roque

Events

• The Faustino Miranda Botanical Garden is founded under the trusteeship of Dr. Faustino Miranda.
• March 9: The Mexico City trolleybus system starts operating.

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1951

Sport

• 1950–51 Mexican Primera División season.
• Azules de Veracruz México win the Mexican League.
• November 12: C.F. La Piedad founded.

Births

• January 6 – Fishman (wrestler) (d. 2017)
• January 31 — Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto, Governor of Hidalgo 1999-2005
• February 3 — Felipe Muñoz, swimmer
• April 8 – Joan Sebastian, singer-songwriter (7 Latin Grammy Awards and 5 Grammy Awards, (d. July 13, 2015)
• August 11 – Carlos Alvarado Perea, progressive rock musician (d. January 13, 2020)^[1]
• August 14 — Dulce María Sauri Riancho, politician (PRI); first female Governor of Yucatán Governor of Yucatán
• October 22 — Carlos Frenk, cosmologist^[2]
• November 17 — Eduardo Ibarrola Nicolín, Mexican-born diplomat^[3])
• November 26 – Óscar Lara Aréchiga, politician (PRI) (d. 2017).
• December 27 – Ernesto Zedillo, economist and politician (PRI); 54th President of Mexico (1994-2000)^[4]
• Date unknown
  • Emilio Alvarado Badillo, photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (d. 2017).
  • Saúl Montoya Beltrán, baseball player; (d. 2018).
  • Curro Rivera Agüero, bullfighter; (d. 2001).^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/espectaculos/2020/01/14/muere-el-musico-carlos-alvarado-perea-7317.html Muere el músico Carlos Alvarado Perea
2. https://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology/carlos-frenk Carlos Frenk
3. Web site: EDUARDO IBARROLA-NICOLÍN. Nederlands Centrum voor Handelsbevordering. 4 July 2013.
4. Web site: Ernesto Zedillo . Busca Biografias . es. May 30, 2019.
5. Web site: 2001-01-24. Apuntes biográficos de Curro Rivera, figura mexicana del toreo. live. 2021-07-06. Mundotoro. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20210414013001/https://www.mundotoro.com/noticia/apuntes-biograficos-de-curro-rivera-figura-mexicana-del-toreo/1163347 . 2021-04-14 .
6. News: 2001-01-27. CURRO RIVERA, torero mexicain. fr. Le Monde. 2021-07-06.