Timeline November 1914

Events in November 1914 10

• 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz American forces seize the Mexican port amid the Mexican Revolution U.S. Marines and sailors occupied the port of Veracruz after an incident involving detained American sailors, intervening in Mexico's ongoing revolution. The occupation strained relations with the government of Victoriano Huerta and drew condemnation from several Latin American states. American forces withdrew in November after mediation.
• 1914 First Battle of Ypres Allied and German forces fight to a stalemate in Flanders German attempts to break through to the Channel ports were halted by British, French, and Belgian forces around the Belgian city of Ypres. Losses were heavy on both sides, effectively destroying the original British Expeditionary Force. The battle marked the end of the war of movement and the start of static trench warfare in the west.
• 1914 The First Battle of Ypres Ypres, Belgium The last attempt by either side to outflank the other. It ended with the pre-war British regular army effectively destroyed and a continuous trench line from the Channel to Switzerland.
• 1914 Siege of Tsingtao Japanese and British forces seize Germany's colony in China A Japanese force, joined by a small British contingent, besieged and captured the German-leased port of Tsingtao on China's Shandong peninsula. It was Japan's first major action of the war and its first as an ally of Britain. The port's fall ended German colonial presence in East Asia.
• 1914 Battle of Coronel A German squadron hands the Royal Navy its first defeat in a century Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asia Squadron sank two outgunned British cruisers off the coast of Chile, killing over 1,600 sailors. It was the first British naval defeat in a major engagement since the Napoleonic era. The loss prompted the dispatch of a stronger squadron that destroyed von Spee's ships weeks later at the Falklands.
• 1914 The Battle of Coronel Off Chile A German squadron sank two British cruisers with no losses, the Royal Navy's first defeat at sea in over a century.
• 1914 The Ottoman Empire enters the war Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Joining the Central Powers opened fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Dardanelles, and turned a European war into a global one.
• 1914 – 2000 Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) Died 19 January 2000, aged 85 Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, promoted as "the most beautiful woman in the world" and seen in Samson and Delilah. With the composer George Antheil she co-patented a 1942 frequency-hopping system meant to guide torpedoes, a concept later foundational to spread-spectrum wireless. Her scientific work was recognised only late in life.
• 1914 – 1996 Max Manus Resistance Hero Legendary resistance fighter known for audacious ship sabotages in Oslo harbor.
• 1914 – 1999 Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) Died 8 March 1999, aged 84 Joe DiMaggio was a Hall of Fame center fielder for the New York Yankees, famous for his 56-game hitting streak in 1941, a record that still stands. He was a nine-time World Series champion and one of baseball's most iconic figures. He died of lung cancer in Hollywood, Florida.