In this June 18, 1967 photo is the scene at the Monterey Fairgrounds during the Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, Calif. Before Burning Man and Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and Governors Island, there was Monterey Pop. Fifty years ago in June 2017, the three-day concert in the San Francisco Bay area gave birth to the “Summer of Love” and paved the way for today's popular festivals. (Photo by Monterey Herald via AP Photo)





Michael Miller, 5, of Fargo, N.D., “puffs” on one of his last candy cigarettes, March 14, 1953. North Dakota's governor signed a bill passed by the legislature forbidding the sale or possession of candy packaged to resemble cigarettes. The law is effective July 1. Violation is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and 90 days in jail. (Photo by AP Photo)





Sergeant William Ewing, side gunner and assistant radio operator inspects the feed belt of his gun, on a Flying Fortress, at an airbase somewhere in England, on July 1, 1942. (Photo by AP Photo)





Alice Coachman of Albany, Ga., clears the bar at five feet to win the running high jump in Women's National Track Meet in Grand Rapids July 6, 1948. (Photo by AP Photo)





Fifteen-year-old Julio Castillo eyes firefighters and emergency services police as they work with cutting torches to remove the section of fence which pierced his jaw at 47-15 48th St. in the Queens borough of New York, July 8, 1989. Castillo was impaled when he slipped while trying to scale the fence, and he was transported to the hospital with the metal bars still in place. Castillo recovered with no significant injury. (Photo by Steve Spak/AP Photo)





Members said to be from a lost tribe named the Tasaday Namube by a Philippine Government Agency, are shown in the rugged mountain forests of Mindanao Island July 8,1971, in the southern Philippines. An agency spokesman said the tribe, which may total no more than 100 persons, was discovered living in the style of the stone age and cut off from the outside world for hundreds of years. (Photo by AP Photo)





Stan Laurel holds Academy Awards Oscar presented to him for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy on July 11, 1961. (Photo by Don Brinn/AP Photo)





An American paratrooper (right foreground) leaps from a plane during maneuvers in North Africa, July 17, 1943 preceding the allied invasion of Sicily. Other paratroopers and chutes are seen in background. (Photo by AP Photo)





Berlin police are keeping the people from leaving their homes during a outbreak between the National Socialists and the Communists, the German government set up a dictatorship over the entire state of Prussia July 20, 1932, and the army has replaced the police as supervisors of the law. (Photo by AP Photo)





A chorus girl “Aluminum-Blitz” squad, organized to collect aluminum pots and pans for the opening of the national defense aluminum collection in New York, July 21, 1941, cheers the fire engine they used for transportation in making their around of the Times Square sector. (Photo by AP Photo)





Australian soldiers watch a great cloud of smoke and sand rise in the western desert of Africa, June 1, 1941 marking the spot where they blew up a captured enemy ammunition dump. (Photo by AP Photo)





Argentinian race driver Juan Manuel Fangio tries to comfort little Claudio Giorgi, who is crying bitterly after he wasn't allowed to drive around the race track in Fangio's Maserati. Claudio Giorgi is well known in Rome where he is seen frequently driving around in his miniature 46 cc race car. Fangio was racing June 2, 1949 at the 10th Grand Prix of Rome. The race car in the rear belongs to Benedicto Campos who also belongs to the Argentinian race team. (Photo by AP Photo)





The great withdrawal from Flanders continues and thousands of allied troops are still arriving in England after heroically fighting their way out of Belgium and Northern France. Poilus from the Gallant army of the North sit down by a railway siding to write home the good news of their arrival in England safe and sound on June 3, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





The newest type of bicycle, a taxi in streamline form with room for two guests, during a demonstration drive in Copenhagen on June 6, 1940 The bicycle, always popular in Denmark, has received a boost, due to the rationing of gasoline. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Amazing Randi, 27-year-old Canadian escape artist is suspended in the air with the help of a crane, June 7, 1956 in New York, at 49th St. and First Avenue. He was tied in a strait jacket and escaped in 1 minute, 40 seconds. (Photo by Anthony Camerano/AP Photo)





George P. Vierheller, director of the St. Louis Zoo, arrived in St. Louis from New York June 9, 1938 with two gorillas and took them from the station to the zoo in an automobile. The lady gorilla, larger of the two, tries to open the car door, and seems to be considering a dive through the window. In the front seat Vierheller holds the docile boy friend of his discontent passenger. (Photo by AP Photo)





Robert Courter soars through the air during a test of a flying jet pack in Ft. Myer, Va., near Washington, D.C., June 10, 1969. Courter, who is from Lewiston, N.Y., has been testing the jet flying belt, under development for the Defense Department, in various places around the country. (Photo by Bob Daugherty/AP Photo)





Larry the lamb, mascot of an anti-aircraft unit in the London area, June 20, 1941, tosses one of the gunners over his head during a game on a playing field. Larry, a year old, has been the mascot of the unit since birth. He knows and follows all the routine of the station and goes to the cookhouse at the right time, attends parades, alarms and drills. (Photo by AP Photo)





The lead singer of one band talks to two bemused kids at a gig at the “Warzone Centre” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1980s. (Photo by Ricky Adam/Mediadrumworld)





A Detroit police officer with a carbine mounted with a telescopic sight looks toward a roof for snipers in an area of the city wracked by rioting, July 1967. (Photo by AP Photo)





As the troop train pulls up at a London station, children rush to hand cigarettes, refreshments and food to the men of the British Expeditionary Force, returning after their evacuation from Dunkirk, Flanders during the World War Two, on May 31, 1940. As many as 300,000 Allied troops escaped certain death or capture to make it back to England. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)