1951 in Mexico

← 1950 1949 1948 1951 in Mexico → 1952 1953 1954
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): 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):
• Secretary of Navy: Alberto J. Pawling
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Manuel Ramírez Vázquez

Supreme Court[]

• President of the Supreme Court: Salvador Urbina

Governors[]

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila: /
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero: /Alejandro Gómez Maganda
• Hidalgo: /
• Jalisco: José de Jesús González Gallo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo Vélez/
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla: /
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco: Francisco Javier Santamaría
• Tamaulipas: /
• Tlaxcala: /
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán: /
• Zacatecas:

Events[]

• The Faustino Miranda Botanical Garden is founded under the trusteeship of Dr. .
• 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).

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