Template:On this day - January 11

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

• 844 – Birth of Abd Allah I of Córdoba, Umayyad emir of the Emirate of Córdoba (present-day Spain) from 888 to 912 (d. 912).
• 1195 – Birth of Mafalda of Portugal, Catholic blessed, Infanta of Portugal and Queen consort of Castile (d. 1256).
• 1284 – King Peter III of Aragon grants civil and economic privileges to Barcelona (present-day Spain).
• 1565 – In Oceania, the Spanish explorer and military officer Miguel López de Legazpi takes possession of the Eastern Carolines, now the Marshall Islands.
• 1641 – Death of Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish Golden Age poet, scholar, painter and literary theorist (b. 1583).
• 1815 – In Uruguay, the Battle of Guayabos is fought, in which the Uruguayan army defeats the centralist army of Buenos Aires.
• 1875 – Alfonso XII lands in Valencia from Barcelona and heads for Madrid to take the throne of Spain.
• 1884 – In La Plata, the first electric public lighting service in Argentina is inaugurated.
• 1933 – In Spain, the events of Casas Viejas take place, where anarchists of the CNT try to establish anarcho-communism.
• 1936 – In the Dominican Republic, a law is passed changing the name of Santo Domingo to Ciudad Trujillo, in honor of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo.
• 1945 – In Spain, the founding law of the Institute of Hispanic Culture is issued, the present-day AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation).
• 1956 – The United States expresses its interest in Spain's rapid admission to NATO.
• 1967 – A heavy snowfall covers the main cities of Mexico, including its capital, Mexico City.
• 1971 – In Bolivia, Hugo Bánzer Suárez storms the General Staff.
• 1975 – Death of Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish playwright, journalist and diplomat (b. 1897).
• 1981 – In New York, the Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is elected Secretary-General of the UN.
• 1984 – In Spain, Salvador Dalí announces the creation of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation and the donation of 621 of his works.
• 1993 – The largest wind farm in Europe is inaugurated in Tarifa (Spain).
• 1999 – Death of Josefina Pla, Spanish poet and playwright with dual Paraguayan nationality (b. 1903).
• 2002 – The first prisoners arrive at the Guantánamo detention center, occupied by the United States in Cuba.
• 2008 – Death of Pepín Bello, Spanish writer and intellectual, last representative of the Generation of '27 (b. 1904).
• 2022 – Argentina becomes the hottest territory on the planet for a week, owing to high pressure and the La Niña phenomenon, which produce a historic heat wave.