The summer of love and summers of tension: 21 iconic images taken on June 21
Each day we offer a curated collection of some of the best AP images that were taken from that day. Not all of these photos were prize winners, but each of them certainly tells a story.
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1938: Hitler
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, right, accepts a bouquet of flowers from a young German girl on the occasion of his visit to Stettin, Germany, where he is attending a Nazi party meeting, June 21, 1938. (AP Photo)
1939: Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, visited the International Horse Show at Olympia. Princess Margaret strokes the horse after Princess Elizabeth had presented a winning trophy to Anne Coates at the horse show at Olympia, London, on June 21, 1939. (AP Photo)
1939: Solstice
Image shows a general view of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, during the summer solstice celebrations June 21, 1939. The flaming woodpile is surrounded by members of the Hitler Boys and Girls members of the "Hitlerjugend" (Hitler Youth) and "Bund Deutscher Maedchen" (German Girls League) holding torches. More than 100,000 Berliners attended the Fest were Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech advising England quickly to solve the Danzig and the Corridor Problems and otherwise to "care for her own Empire". (AP Photo)
1941 Refugess
This group of children, part of the 111 young refugees from European countries, is photographed arriving in New York, June 21, 1941, from Lisbon, Portugal, aboard the liner Mouzinho. Originally from Germany and Poland, they were brought from Marseilles by the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children. (AP Photo)
1942: Scrap drive
Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, in effigy, are about to take a mile-high plunge over Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, June 21, 1942, as part of the scrap rubber drive. Private Elias Nour, who arranged the stunt as a farewell party on the eve of his entrance into the army, is on the running board. He guided as the "Axis" plunged to destruction. Spectators had to give a scrap of rubber as the price of admission to the spectacle. (AP Photo)
1943: Race riots
Sam Mitchell, a 46-year-old black janitor, is assaulted by George Miller as police escort Mitchell after he was shot in the stomach during rioting in the edge of the downtown area of Detroit, Mich., June 21, 1943. U.S. troops were called in when police were unable to stop the fighting. (AP Photo)
1943: Race riots
In this June 21, 1943 file photo, a mob turns over a car as police stand nearby, powerless to intervene, as race rioting between whites and blacks spread to many parts of Detroit. (AP Photo)
1944: France
A wounded German prisoner, wearing a camouflages uniform, is escorted to an allied first aid station in France on June 21, 1944, by Pvt. Gaston Daisneault, Chateauguay, Quebec, (left) and Pvt. Robert Bonneau (center, background), of Lyster, Quebec. (AP Photo)
1945: Harry Truman
President Harry Truman and U.S. Sen. Warren Magnuson, left, grin happily as they admire a salmon held by the President on Puget Sound fishing trip to Washington June 21, 1945 - even though the fish was a gift. The Presidential party had a lot of fun but not much fishing luck. (AP Photo)
1946: Television
A large-view (ten-inch screen) console model television set and a small table model with a seven-inch screen were at press previews in New York, June 21, 1946. One of the features of the new television models is screen visibility which so exposes the television image as to be clearly seen by many onlookers in a room, either sitting or standing. Violet Assad watches the Louis-Conn fight on Emerson Radio’s new chair-side console television receiver with ten inch screen. It will retail for approximately $250. (AP Photo/Carl Nesensohn)
1947: Bugsy Siegel
A coroner bends over the slain body of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel after it is placed on a stretcher on the living room floor of Bugsy's Beverly Hills home on June 21, 1947. The 41-year-old gambler was sitting on the sofa when an unidentified gunman pumped a volley of bullets in his body through the window in the background. (AP Photo)
1953: Infant Birth and Care
The relaxing position is practiced by members of a class in the natural childbirth system in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 21, 1953. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi)
1955: Billy Graham
US evangelist Billy Graham, right, speaks to a crowd of 30.000 people at the soccer stadium in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, on June 21, 1955. (AP Photo)
1957: Bobby Fischer
Fourteen-year-old chess sensation Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., starts to make a move with his queen during a tournament match with Charles Saxon at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York, June 21, 1957. He did not win this game. Bobby is one of the youngest tournament players in the nation. (AP Photo/Hans Von Nolde)
1961: Carol Burnett
TV and stage comedienne Carol Burnett, whose funny faces have helped her toward success, makes another kind of face in Westport Conn. She's studying cartooning at an artists' school, and shows natural talent, according to her instructors. This photo is dated June 21, 1961. (AP Photo)
1963: POPE PAUL VI
Long-lens shot of the newly elected Pope Paul VI, imparting his first blessing "Urbi et Orbi" (Over the City of Rome and over the World) from the central balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica June 21, 1963. (Ap Photo/Leslie Priest)
1965: Demonstrations
Part of a group of some thirty-year-old youths sit in a school bus in Laconia, New Hampshire on June 21, 1965 as they await appearance in court on charges stemming from Saturday night riot at nearby Weirs Beach. School bus carried them from jail to old railroad station the city uses as police station and court house. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green)
1966: Mississippi
An unidentified white man leaps from the hood of a car into a crowd of demonstrators as a fist-swinging melee erupted, June 21, 1966 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, as Dr. Martin Luther King led a memorial march through Philadelphia for three Civil Rights workers killed near Philadelphia two years ago. (AP Photo)
1967: Summer Of Love
A crowd keeps a large ball, painted to represent a world globe, in the air during a gathering at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, to celebrate the summer solstice on Thursday, June 21, 1967, day one of "Summer of Love." If the Summer of Love established San Francisco as the hub of hippiedom, the summer of 2007 may one day be remembered as a time when the city and the rest of the country commemorated 1960s counterculture by taking the "counter" out of it. (AP Photo)
1976: Jimmy Carter
Democratic frontrunner Jimmy Carter jumps from the train station platform, Monday, June 21, 1976 in his home town of Plains, Ga., Carter came into town for a chat with neighbors as he spends a few days of rest here prior to a busy traveling schedule later this week. (AP Photo)
1996: Unabomber
Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski looks around as U.S. Marshals prepare to take him down steps at the federal courthouse to a waiting vehicle Friday, June 21, 1996 in Helena, Mont. A federal judge Friday ordered Kaczynski moved to California to face charges that he is the Unabomber. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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