October 14, 1935: After refusing to to call a general election for as long as he legally could, because he knew he would lose, Prime Minister Richard B. Bennett of Canada finally faces the voters. Those voters were angry at the way he handled the Great Depression, and the Regina Riot that followed the On-to-Ottawa Trek 4 months earlier. Just as a car pulled by a horse because the owner couldn't afford gasoline was known in America as a Hoover Wagon, it was known in Canada as a Bennett Buggy.
The Conservative Party fell from 134 seats to just 39, while the Liberal Party rose from 90 to 171. This returned their Leader, William Lyon Mackenzie King to the post of Prime Minister, which he had lost to Bennett in the 1930 election.
With Canada still part of the British Empire, Bennett was offered a post in the War Cabinet in 1939, and never returned home. He died in 1947, after World War II, with Mackenzie King still serving as Prime Minister. Bennett was buried in England, and remains the only deceased Canadian Prime Minister not buried on Canadian soil.
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October 14, 1935 was a Monday. Ralph Dupas, briefly the Light Middleweight Champions of the World in 1963, was born on this day.
The World Series ended a week earlier, with the Detroit Tigers beating the Chicago Cubs in 6 games. Football was in midweek: Monday Night Football didn't start for another 35 years. The NBA hadn't been founded yet. And the NHL season didn't start until November 7. So there were no scores on this historic day.
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