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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_6" title="April 6">April 6</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_Day" title="Tartan Day">Tartan Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: Ships of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Navy" title="Continental Navy">Continental Navy</a> unsuccessfully <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Block_Island" title="Battle of Block Island">attempted to capture</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glasgow_(1757)" title="HMS Glasgow (1757)">HMS <i>Glasgow</i></a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Island" title="Block Island">Block Island</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808" title="1808">1808</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor" title="John Jacob Astor">John Jacob Astor</a></b> founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fur_Company" title="American Fur Company">American Fur Company</a>, the profits from which made him the first multi-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire" title="Millionaire">millionaire</a> in the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA" title="ABBA">ABBA</a> won the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1974" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1974">Eurovision Song Contest</a></b> representing Sweden with the song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(song)" title="Waterloo (song)">Waterloo</a>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994" title="1994">1994</a> – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana" title="Juvénal Habyarimana">Juvénal Habyarimana</a> and Burundian president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprien_Ntaryamira" title="Cyprien Ntaryamira">Cyprien Ntaryamira</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana_and_Cyprien_Ntaryamira" title="Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira">was shot down</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigali" title="Kigali">Kigali</a>; the event became the catalyst for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">Rwandan genocide</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – Egyptian workers staged <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Egyptian_general_strike" title="2008 Egyptian general strike">an illegal general strike</a></b>, two days before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Egyptian_municipal_elections" title="2008 Egyptian municipal elections">key municipal elections</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_protests" title="April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests">Mass protests</a></b> began across Moldova against the results of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election" title="April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election">the parliamentary election</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mill" title="James Mill">James Mill</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1773); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wills_Douglas_Sr." title="Donald Wills Douglas Sr.">Donald Wills Douglas Sr.</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1892); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27Neill" title="Rose O'Neill">Rose O'Neill</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1944); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng_Ser_Miang" title="Ng Ser Miang">Ng Ser Miang</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>