1929 in Mexico

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See also:	Other events of 1929 List of years in Mexico

Events from the year 1929 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President:
  • Emilio Portes Gil (starting December 1)
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

Events

• March 3 – Escobar Rebellion: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre, challenging the power of Plutarco Elías Calles, ends in failure.[1]
• November 17 – General election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged.[2][3][4]

Ongoing

• Mexican Repatriation (1929-1936)[5]

Births

• January 4 – Aldo Monti, actor (died 2016)
• February 24 – Modesta Lavana, healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan (died 2010)
• April 5 – Vicente García Bernal, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (1988–2005).(d. 2017)
• April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress (died 2017)
• July 28 – José Solé, stage actor and director (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) (d. 2017)
• August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor (died 1987)
• October 17 — Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher (d. 2018).
• November 18 — Francisco Savín, composer and director of Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (1963-1967); (d. 2018).
• Date unknown — Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico (d. 2018)

Deaths

• March 20 – Miguel Alemán González, general (born 1884)[6]

References

1. Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter (2010). Wings over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend. University of Texas. ISBN 0292787812.
2. "Las elecciones de 1929". Reconoce MX. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
3. Gil Olmos, José. "Un siglo de fraudes". Proceso. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
4. Ramales Osorio, M.C. "MÉXICO: FRAUDES ELECTORALES, AUTORITARISMO Y REPRESIÓN Del Estado benefactor al Estado neoliberal". Retrieved 19 August 2018.
5. Hoffman, Abraham (1974-01-01). Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939. VNR AG. ISBN 9780816503667.
6. "Miguel Alemán González (1884-1929)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved March 9, 2017.