July 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1769	An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).	Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks	Summer in Monterey	Orange Crate Art
2	1771	Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.	Aislers Set	Mission Bells	How I Learned to Write Backwards
3	1789	French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.	Rush	Bastille Day	Caress of Steel
4	1798	The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.	Impact Unit	Complain	My Friend the Pit
5	1881	Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.	Spoon	Waiting for the Kid to Come Out	Soft Effects
6	1960	Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.	Out Hud	Hominid Hump	Natural Selection
7	1969	The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.	Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	Mr. Bill Collector	E.1999 Eternal
8	2000	A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.	Boris	Flare	New Album

(Historical facts about July 14 are from Wikipedia.)