WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened October to November 1914

SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos. (9. November 1914)

World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality. (5. October 1914)

World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire. (5. November 1914)

The First Battle of Ypres begins. (19. October 1914)

World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. (28. November 1914)

Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. (13. November 1914)

In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history. (13. October 1914)

World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. (1. November 1914)

Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity founded at Syracuse University. (5. November 1914)

World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed. (2. November 1914)

Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League. (15. November 1914)

World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. (27. October 1914)

World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. (9. October 1914)

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. (23. November 1914)

The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. (7. November 1914)

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. (16. November 1914)

The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. (18. October 1914)

The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. (7. November 1914)

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