November 1914 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1914 Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby
• 02 Nov 1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus
• 04 Nov 1914 Russia declares Turkey the war
• 05 Nov 1914 Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey
• 07 Nov 1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
• 09 Nov 1914 SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
• 11 Nov 1914 24 ampndash World War I ampndash The Battle of Basra results in British Empire forces taking Basra from the Ottoman Empire.
• 12 Nov 1914 Turks Sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
• 14 Nov 1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks ten singles in a game.
• 16 Nov 1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens
• 17 Nov 1914 US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
• 20 Nov 1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
• 21 Nov 1914 British army conquerors Bazra
• 22 Nov 1914 Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
• 23 Nov 1914 Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 24 Nov 1914 Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
• 26 Nov 1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die
• 27 Nov 1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
• 28 Nov 1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

Famous Birthday

• Henri Laborit

  French physician and surgeon born in Viet Nam.

• Hedy Lamarr

  Austrian actress once considered to be the most beautiful woman in motion pictures, whose first film, "Ecstasy," 1937, had been banned in...

• Joe Dimaggio
• Taisen Deshimaru

  founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at age 67.

• Léon Zitrone

  Russian-French journalist (d. 1995).

• Charles Berlitz
• Peter Townsend

  British citizen born in Burma, a military group commander and author.

• Emilio Pucci

  Naples, Italy -- Fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954).

• R A Lafferty

  American science fiction writer (Born 1914).

• Jonathan Harris

  American actor (Born 1914).

• Ray Walston

  American actor who became most noted for the TV sitcom series "My Favorite Martian.

• Jean-Pierre Grenier
• Edward Schillebeeckx

  Flemish theologian who worked in the reformation church.

• Alberto Lattuada

  Italian author, architect and film director.

• Barbara Washburn

  American explorer, mountaineer, cartographer, lecturer and teacher.

• Jacques Debary
• Henri Langlois

  French film archivist and cinephile.

• Lynn Chadwick
• Walter Boer
• Coleridge Goode
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Famous Deaths

• Elbrige Gerry

  VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70.

• Louis de Raet

  Belgian economist / Flemish People Party.

• Davorin Jenko

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Christopher "Kit" Cradock

  English Admiral, dies in battle.

• Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts

  Governor of Natal, dies at 82.

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