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Template:On this day - January 3
From Hispanopedia
- 1642 – Birth of Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón, Spanish churchman, Viceroy of Peru (d. 1730).
- 1687 – In Spain, Charles II creates the Superintendency General of Finance, placing the Marquis of los Vélez at its head.
- 1834 – In Mexico City, the government imprisons Stephen Austin, accused of promoting the independence of Texas and inciting insurrection.
- 1874 – In Spain, General Pavía carries out a coup d'état by entering the Cortes, bringing the First Spanish Republic to an end.
- 1903 – The Academies of Sciences of Madrid and Paris recognize the research of the engineer and academician Leonardo Torres Quevedo.
- 1911 – The United States orders the withdrawal of its troops from Nicaragua and recognizes the new government headed by Juan José Estrada.
- 1924 – Death of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician, journalist and revolutionary leader (b. 1874).
- 1924 – In the civil cemetery of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, the socialist governor of Yucatán, is executed by firing squad after being stripped of public power, together with his brothers Edesio, Benjamín and Wilfrido and 9 other associates.
- 1932 – In Honduras, martial law is declared to put down the revolt of banana workers dismissed by the United Fruit company.
- 1939 – The EFE agency is founded in Burgos (Spain).
- 1944 – At least a hundred people die when a passenger train collides with a locomotive in a tunnel just outside the station of Torre del Bierzo (León).
- 1961 – The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1966 – In Havana (Cuba), the OSPAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America) is founded.
- 1981 – The European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is founded in Paris; its founding members include the Spaniards Pedro Laín Entralgo, Federico Sopeña and Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
- 1990 – In Panama, President Manuel Noriega surrenders to US soldiers and is taken to the United States.
- 2006 – The Internet reaches 100 million users (one in every seventy people on the planet has access to the network).
- 2012 – The Lima Metro opens after 23 years of works.
