Human Rights Calendar
This calendar is a compendium of information related to human rights-oriented observances.
1943
Members of the Frente Cívico Potosino occupy City Hall in San Luis Potosí to protest the electoral fraud. They are brutally repressed. The result: 1 dead and 100 wounded.
1946
The communist Héctor López, former treasurer of Section 1 of the Mexican Mining, Metallurgical and Similar Workers Industrial Union, is assassinated.
1954
The Sinarquista National Union is against fraud in the municipal elections in León, Guanajuato. The dissidents held a rally in front of the municipal palace and were repelled with firearms by the army, leaving dozens dead and injured, mostly workers. The incident has never been clarified and the perpetrators have never been prosecuted.
1985
Acts of violence in Delicias, Chihuahua. It was during an alleged attempt of simultaneous assault on the Barracks of the 20th Cavalry Regiment and the local Police Command by a group of about 30 Henriquistas, headed by Emiliano J. Laing and Rosendo Pérez. The official version is that they arrived on board a truck of redeemers and opened fire, in what would be the beginning of a "rebellion" for which both soldiers and police had to respond.
1985
Celestino Acevedo Ortiz, a member of the Triqui Unification and Struggle Movement, is arrested and disappeared in Mexico City. The MULT holds local and judicial authorities in Oaxaca responsible for the arrest.
1938
Matilde Montoya Lafragua, the first Mexican doctor, died. On August 24, 1887, Matilde Montoya made history by becoming the first when he presented his professional exam at the National School of Medicine.
2019
World Day for African Culture and People of African Descent: . As a valuable source of the common heritage of mankind, the promotion of African culture and of people of African descent is crucial for the continent’s development and for humanity as a whole.
1894
Gustavo Baz Prada is born in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico. Mexican doctor and revolutionary. On December 14, 1914, he was elected interim governor of the State of Mexico when he was just 20 years old.