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Your support makes all the difference.YOUR guide to some of the less momentous events to have occurred during the forthcoming week in history.
11 October:
1919: The first airline meals are served on a flight from London to Paris. They are packed lunches and are sold for three shillings each.
1958: Grandstand first transmitted on BBC television.
12 October:
1609: The song 'Three Blind Mice' published in London.
13 October:
1792: The foundation stone of the White House is laid in Washington DC.
14 October:
1922: The final turf is laid at Wembley Stadium.
1982: 5,837 couples marry in a mass wedding in Seoul, South Korea.
1985: Sir Clive Sinclair's TPD, makers of the C5 electric car, call in receivers.
15 October:
1666: Samuel Pepys records the first sighting of a waistcoat, as worn by King Charles II.
1839: Queen Victoria proposes to Prince Albert.
16 October:
1916: The world's first birth control clinic opens in the United States.
17 October:
1860: Prestwick, Scotland, hosts the first professional golf tournament.
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