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The following events occurred in November 1914:

November 1, 1914 (Sunday)

• Battle of Coronel — The Royal Navy suffered its first defeat of World War One, after a British squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock met and was defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee in the eastern Pacific. Cradock perished in the battle, along with British 1,570 sailors, when both the HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth were sunk.
• Born: Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)

November 2, 1914 (Monday)

• Born: Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997); Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• Died: Heinrich Burkhardt, German mathematician (b. 1861)

November 3, 1914 (Tuesday)

• Died: Georg Trakl, Austrian poet, committed suicide (b. 1887)

November 5, 1914 (Thursday)

• Britain and France declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
• The United Kingdom annexed Cyprus, which it controlled until 1960.
• Alpha Phi Delta was founded as a Greek social fraternity at Syracuse University, New York.
• Born: Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
• Died: August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (b. 1834)

November 6, 1914 (Friday)

• Born: Jonathan Harris, American actor (Lost in Space) (d. 2002); Leonard Miall, British broadcaster and television personality (d. 2005

November 7, 1914 (Saturday)

• Siege of Tsingtao — The Japanese and British seized Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.

November 8, 1914 (Sunday)

• Born: George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005); Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer, director and husband of Peggy Lloyd

November 9, 1914 (Monday)

• Battle of Cocos — Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sank the German cruiser SMS Emden.

November 10, 1914 (Tuesday)

• Born: Tod Andrews, American actor (d. 1972)

November 11, 1914 (Wednesday)

• Born: Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d. 2003)
• Died: A. E. J. Collins, British cricketer and soldier, killed in action (b. 1885)

November 12, 1914 (Thursday)

• Died: Augusto dos Anjos, Brazilian poet (b. 1884)

November 13, 1914 (Friday)

• Born: Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)

November 14, 1914 (Saturday)

• Died: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (b. 1832)

November 16, 1914 (Monday)

• The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opened for business.

November 19, 1914 (Thursday)

• Died: Robert Jones Burdette, American minister and humorist (b. 1844)

November 21, 1914 (Saturday)

• Harvard defeated Yale 36-0 in the first football game held at the new Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut.
• Died: Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (b. 1833)

November 23, 1914 (Monday)

• U.S. troops withdrew from Veracruz, Mexico after occupying the town since April, allowing soldiers under the command of Venustiano Carranza to move in to set up the leader's main headquarters.
• Born: Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998); George Dunn, American actor (d. 1982)

November 24, 1914 (Tuesday)

• Benito Mussolini was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.

November 25, 1914 (Wednesday)

• Born: Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)

November 28, 1914 (Saturday)

• The New York Stock Exchange re-opened for bond trading after closing in August due to the onset of World War One.

November 29, 1914 (Sunday)

• Born: Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-British jazz bassist (d. 2015)