Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior

Santiago Creel

Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican lawyer and politician, and a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Since 1 September 2021, he had used to be a federal deputy and the current president of the Congress of the Union and of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies. However, Creel resigned from his position as president of the Chamber of Deputies on August 14, 2023, to pursue the presidential nomination for the 2024 elections. As of March 2026, the current President of the Chamber of Deputies is Kenia López Rabadán, who was appointed on 2 September 2025.

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1954

December 11

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1950s

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1954 Born

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220 Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty.
361 Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.
861 Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
969 Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.

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The world in 1954

When Santiago arrived

april 1 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
april 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
april 22 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
april 25 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Aquilino Pimentel 1933– Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019) Elena Garro 1916– Mexican author and playwright (died 1998) Francesco Algarotti 1712–1764 Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1764) George Mason 1725–1792 American lawyer and politician (died 1792) Glenn Lazarus 1965– Australian rugby league player and politician Jean Marais 1913–1998 French actor and director (died 1998) Manoel de Oliveira 1908–2015 Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908) Paul Greengard 1925– American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019) Rita Moreno 1931– Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer

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Alan Kulwicki 1954–1993 American race car driver (born 1954) Annie Lennox 1954– Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist Archie Griffin 1954– American football player Chris Huhne 1954– English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Clem Burke 1954–2025 American drummer (born 1954) Cliff Martinez 1954– American drummer and songwriter David Keith 1954– American actor and director David Lee Roth 1954– American singer-songwriter and producer Dawn Primarolo 1954– English politician

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