Reuters historical calendar - October 14

London, Oct 13 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 14 since 1900: 1912 - US President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee. He was saved by his thick coat and a bundle of paper in his breast pocket.

1933 - Germany says it withdraws from the League of Nations.

1944 - Erwin Rommel, the ''Desert Fox'', commander of Germany's Afrika Corps, killed himself with cyanide before he could be arrested for making contact with anti-Hitler conspirators.

1947 - Flying the rocket-powered X-1, US Air Force Captain Charles Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier.

1959 - The Australian-born actor Errol Flynn died. Best known for roles in films including ''Captain Blood'' and ''Robin Hood''.

1964 - US civil rights leader Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1977 - The American actor and singer Bing Crosby died of a heart attack. Remembered for his ''Road to...'' films with Bob Hope and his version of the song ''White Christmas''.

1988 - The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz became the first writer in Arabic to win the Nobel literature prize.

1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer of such popular classics as the musical ''West Side Story'', died.

1991 - Jubilant Bulgarians crammed the centre of Sofia to celebrate the end of the Communist Party's four-decade rule.

1998 - Nigeria's exiled Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka returned home, nearly four years after fleeing the military dictatorship he vigorously opposed.

2001 - Two days of anti-American riots in the northern Nigerian city of Kano ended. At least 200 people died in the riots, in which churches, mosques and shops were set on fire.

2002 - Britain suspended Northern Ireland's power-sharing government after a spying row threw the fledgling peace process into its worst political crisis since 1998's peace accord.

2003 - Moktar Ould Daddah, Mauritania's first president, died. He took power on independence from France in 1960.

2004 - Bowing to Western pressure, Bosnian Serbs acknowledged that their forces had killed more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, in what was widely seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

2005 - The English actor Daniel Craig was named as the new movie James Bond, ending months of speculation over who would take over from Pierce Brosnan.

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