July 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	911	Rollo lays siege to Chartres.	Rollo Tomasi	A Room Alone	He Who Holds You
2	1807	Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.	The Decemberists	The Engine Driver	Picaresque
3	1932	In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.	Ben E. King	I Count the Tears	Doo-Wop Groups and Crooners
4	1934	Labor unrest in the U.S., as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.	Eddie Kendricks	Keep on Trucking	Keep on Trucking
5	1934	1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.	Otis Redding	(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay	The Dock of the Bay
6	1938	The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.	Neil Young	Motion Pictures	On the Beach
7	1968	The first Special Olympics is held.	New Order	Special	Republic
8	1969	Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first human-crewed landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. The first Moonwalk EVA follows almost 7 hours later.	Barclay James Harvest	Sea of Tranquility	Gone to Earth
9	1977	The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.	Negative FX	Mind Control	Negative FX / Last Rights Split

(Historical facts about July 20 are from Wikipedia.)