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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2020 On This Date 1488 – With his arrival in Quote of the Day Portugal, Bartolomeu Dias became “Woodstock was both a the first known European to peaceful protest and a successfully sail around the Cape of global celebration.” Good Hope. ~ Richie Havens, 1791 – With Virginia’s vote, the Woodstock opening act United States Bill of Rights was ratified, becoming the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. Happy Birthday! 1903 – New York City Max Yasgur (1919–1973) was not street vendor Italo just a simple dairy farmer. By the 1960s, Marchiony received a he was the largest milk producer in patent for a device that Sullivan County, New York. When molded ice-cream cones. he offered one of his fields to host the Woodstock Music Festival, he had 1944 – Somewhere over the English no idea that he was setting the stage Channel, a plane carrying Major for the largest countercultural event Glenn Miller went missing. The in American history. In fact, Yasgur singer was on his way to lead his was a Republican Air Force Band in a concert. and supporter of Daily Trivia the Vietnam War. However, Yasgur Truffles, the darling of the food was also a believer scene, grow on the roots of truffle in free speech and oaks. They come in three colors. so supported young Black truffles are generally from people in defining themselves. He France, white are generally from once said, “If the generation gap is Italy, and gray can be found to be closed, we older people have to in North America. do more than we have done.”