February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
Day of death September 27, 1960
The temperature on September 27, 1960 was between 3.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
August 20 » Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
October 1 » Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
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