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Your support makes all the difference.9 October:
1947: The first telephone conversation between a car 'phone and an aeroplane is made in Wilmington, Delaware.
1959: Margaret Thatcher takes her seat in parliament.
1973: Elvis Presley is divorced.
10 October:
1846: Neptune's moon, Triton, is discovered by William Lassell. It is the only moon known to rotate against the direction of rotation of the planet it orbits.
1886: The dinner jacket makes its first appearance at the Tuxedo Park Country Club in New York.
1953: Winston Churchill adopts a cat called "Margate" at number 10.
1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as vice president.
11 October:
1919: The first airline meals - pre-packed lunches costing three shillings - are served on a London-Paris flight.
1958: First transmission of Grandstand on BBC TV.
12 October:
1609: "Three Blind Mice" is published in London.
1849: Charles Rowley patents the safety pin in the UK, unaware that Walter Hunt beat him to it in the US six months before.
1961: New Zealand abolishes the death penalty.
1986: The Queen becomes the first British monarch to visit China.
13 October:
1792: The cornerstone of the White House is laid in Washington.
1884: Greenwich is adopted as the universal time meridian.
14 October:
1854: The first baby show is held at Springfield, Ohio.
1920: Oxford University opens its degrees to women.
1922: The final turf is laid at Wembley stadium.
1969: The 50p coin comes into circulation.
1982: 5,837 couples are married at a massive wed-in in South Korea.
1985: Sir Clive Sinclair's TPD, makers of the C5, call in the receivers.
15 October:
1666: The first waistcoat on record is worn by Charles I.
1839: Queen Victoria proposed to Prince Albert.
1895: Britain's first motor show opens in Tunbridge Wells.
1951: The first party political broadcast on television is given by Lord Samuel on behalf of the Liberal Party.
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