Vintage news

50 years ago today, filming started on the iconic TV series The Prisoner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-37232329

Recovered 100 years later: Panama Canal workers flooded a railway yard in 1910

http://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/19...d-in-1910/

1957 BMW Isetta 300 convertible

September 8th 1943: Italy's surrender announced
Italy signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies, General Dwight D Eisenhower announced.
The surrender was signed five days previously in secret by a representative of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's prime minister since the downfall of Benito Mussolini in July.

General Eisenhower - the commander in chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean - said the Italian Government had agreed to end all hostilities with the United Nations.

In a broadcast on Algiers radio he said: "All Italians who now act to help eject the German aggressor from Italian soil will have the assistance and support of the United Nations."


General G Castellano, representing Italy, receives a handshake from General Dwight D Eisenhower.

Steamboat Arabia, missing for 132 years, discovered 45 feet under a field
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/1...r-a-field/

The Norman Timbs Special was discovered in a desert & thankfully restored

The statue of Liberty's head on exhibit at the Paris World's Fair, 1878

Judit Polgár is the woman who defeated Kasparov, Karpov and Spassky

Extremely Vintage News! Maybe the most famous date in the English calendar, 950 years ago today, The Battle Of Hastings

80 years ago today, The Crystal Palace burnt down.