Happy Anniversary: Food takes off

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.