Timeline October 1935

Events in October 1935 7

• 1854 – 1935 Edward Carson (1854-1935) Died 22 October 1935, aged 81 Carson was an Irish unionist leader and barrister who led opposition to Irish Home Rule and prosecuted Oscar Wilde's libel case against Queensberry. He was given a state funeral in Belfast.
• 1863 – 1935 Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) Died 20 October 1935, aged 72 Henderson was a British Labour leader and Foreign Secretary who presided over the World Disarmament Conference. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934.
• 1883 – 1935 Charles Demuth (1883-1935) Died 23 October 1935, aged 51 Demuth was an American Precisionist painter known for I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. He died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia Start of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Italian forces under Emilio De Bono crossed from Eritrea into Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Mussolini aimed to avenge the defeat at Adwa in 1896 and to expand Italy's East African empire. The invasion exposed the weakness of the League of Nations.
• 1935 Porgy and Bess opens on Broadway Gershwin's folk opera premieres in New York George Gershwin's opera, with libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, opened at the Alvin Theatre. Songs from it, including Summertime, became American standards.
• 1935 – 2007 Luciano Pavarotti King of the High Cs Operatic tenor who became one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.
• 1935 Canadian federal election Mackenzie King returns to power William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals defeated R. B. Bennett's Conservatives by a wide margin. King stayed Prime Minister until 1948.