Reuters Historical Calendar-September 14

London, Sep 13 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 14 since 1900.

1901 - US President William McKinley died from his wounds after being shot by an assassin on September 6. He was succeeded in office by Theodore Roosevelt.

1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin was fatally wounded by an assassin at a theatre in Kiev. He died four days later.

1930 - Adolf Hitler's National Socialist (Nazi) Party became the second largest party in the Reichstag.

1937 - Thomas Masaryk, the Czech revolutionary who in 1918 became Czechoslovakia's first president, died.

1938 - The maiden flight took place of the German airship LZ130 Graf Zeppelin, sister ship of the ill-fated Hindenburg.

1939 - The first successful helicopter, Igor Sikorsky's VS-300, made its maiden flight.

1960 - Representatives of oil producing countries finished a meeting in Baghdad that led to the formation of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

1975 - In Amsterdam, Rembrandt's priceless painting ''The Nightwatch'' was slashed by an unemployed teacher with a knife.

1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died in hospital after a car crash the previous day. As the American film actress Grace Kelly, she appeared in films including ''High Noon'', ''Dial M for Murder'' and ''High Society''.

1982 - Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated by a bomb at his party headquarters in East Beirut.

1990 - The first ever gene therapy was carried out by W French Anderson at Bethesda, Maryland, on a 4-year-old girl who had inherited a genetic deficiency.

1996 - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk pardoned Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary for his role in the ''killing fields'' era of the 1970s under Pol Pot.

1998 - Northern Ireland's new power-sharing parliament started proceedings.

1999 - The British film director Charles Crichton, who made a string of vintage comedies ending with the box office hit ''A Fish Called Wanda'', died aged 89.

2000 - The senior Chinese parliamentary official Cheng Kejie was executed for taking million in bribes. He was the most senior official to be executed for corruption since 1949.

2001 - Ansett, Australia's second biggest airline, collapsed, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and placing 60,000 jobs in jeopardy.

2001 - Ahmad Shah Masood, the legendary guerrilla commander who had helped to lead the fight against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, died from wounds suffered in a suicide bomb attack on September. 9.

2003 - Soldiers seized power in the small West African nation of Guinea Bissau.

2003 - Trade talks vital for the global economy collapsed in Cancun, Mexico after rich and poor states fought bitterly over farm reform and new rules to slash red tape and corruption.

**2005 - At a rare high-level meeting of the 15-nation UN Security Council, leaders of the major powers unanimously voted on a resolution seeking nations to adopt laws to end incitement to terrorism.

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