1951 in Mexico

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 • 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) • August 14 — Dulce María Sauri Riancho, politician (PRI); first female Governor of Yucatán Governor of Yucatán • October 22 — Carlos Frenk, cosmologist • November 10 — Arnoldo Kraus, physician and writer (d. 2025) • November 17 — Eduardo Ibarrola Nicolín, Mexican-born diplomat • November 26 – Óscar Lara Aréchiga, politician (PRI) (d. 2017). • December 27 – Ernesto Zedillo, economist and politician (PRI); 54th President of Mexico (1994-2000) • 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). ==References==