Talk:April 6

April 6: Tartan Day

ABBA

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island.
• 1808 – John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
• 1974 – ABBA (pictured) won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".
• 1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
• 2008 – Egyptian workers staged an illegal general strike, two days before key municipal elections.
• 2009 – Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.