1924 in Mexico
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The following lists events that happened in 1924 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Ãlvaro Obregón (until 30 November); Plutarco ElÃas Calles (from 1 December)[1]
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Romeo Ortega
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Aarón Sáenz Garza
- Communications Secretary (SCT):
- Education Secretary (SEP):
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes: Victorino Medina
- Campeche: Ãngel Castillo Lanz
- Chiapas: Rogelio GarcÃa Castro
- Chihuahua: Vicente N. Mendoza
- Coahuila: Carlos Garza Castro
- Colima: Gerardo Hurtado Sánchez
- Guanajuato: Jesús S. Soto (interim), Arturo Sierra (interim)
- Guerrero: Francisco Figueroa Mata
- Jalisco: José Guadalupe Zuno
- State of Mexico: Abundio Gómez
- Michoacán: Sidronio Sánchez Pineda then Enrique RamÃrez Aviña
- Morelos: Alfredo Ortega; Amilcar Magaña; Ismael Velazco[2]
- Nayarit: Pascual Villanueva Paredes
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca: Manuel GarcÃa Vigil
- Puebla:
- Querétaro: Julián Malo Juvera
- San Luis PotosÃ: Aurelio Manrique De Lara
- Sinaloa: Ãngel Flores
- Sonora: Alejo Bay
- Tabasco: Tomás Garrido Canabal
- Tamaulipas: Benecio López Padilla/Pelayo Quintana/Candelario Garza/Gregorio Garza Salinas
- Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (until November 30); Heriberto Jara Corona (from December 1)
- Yucatán: Felipe Carrillo Puerto/José MarÃa Iturralde Traconis
- Zacatecas: Felipe Carrillo Puerto/Juan Ricárdez Broca/Miguel Cantón (acting)/José MarÃa Iturralde Traconis
Events
- The federal government reports that troops loyal to President Ãlvaro Obregón have defeated rebels led by Adolfo de la Huerta near Zacualpan.[3]
- February 5 â Anti-government rebels retreat from Veracruz when federal troops are victorious at Córdoba.[4]
- February 7 â Former president and rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta escapes by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recapture Veracruz.[5]
- February 10 â Federal troops decisively defeat rebels at Ocotlán.[6]
- February 15 â Grupo Sonido 13, directed by Julián Carrillo, holds the first concert of microtonal music in Mexico City.
- February 24 â Federal troops defeat rebels in the oil region of Tamaulipas.[7]
- Land belonging to Mexican President-elect Plutarco ElÃas Calles is expropriated in accordance with agrarian laws.[8]
Births
- January 16 â Katy Jurado, actress (died 2002)[9]
- February 29 â AgustÃn Hernández Navarro, architect and sculptor (died 2022)[10]
- March 13 â Raúl Córdoba, international footballer (died 2017)
- June 26 â Juan Gómez, footballer (died 2009)
- November 13 â Jesús Kumate RodrÃguez, physician and politician (died 2018)
Deaths
- January 3 â Felipe Carrillo Puerto, journalist, politician and revolutionary (born 1874)[11]
- June 10 â Salvador Alvarado, politician and soldier (born 1880)[12]