1951 in Mexico

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1951 List of years in Mexico

Events in the year 1951 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel Alemán Valdés
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT):
• Education Secretary (SEP):
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:

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

• 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
• 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
• November 26 – Óscar Lara Aréchiga, politician (PRI) (d. 2017).
• December 27 – Ernesto Zedillo, economist and politician (PRI); 54th President of Mexico (1994-2000)[2]
• 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).

References

1. Muere el músico Carlos Alvarado Perea La Jornada, 14 Jan 2020
2. "Ernesto Zedillo" (in Spanish). Busca Biografias. Retrieved May 30, 2019.