On this day - 6 April
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
ABBA win Eurovision Song Contest
ABBA performed their entry "Waterloo" at the 19th Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton. They won the contest with 24 points ahead of Italy then the Netherlands. Olivia Newton-John performed for the UK and placed 4th. The win launched ABBA to worldwide commercial success.
The contest was held in Brighton that year, despite Luxembourg's win the year prior. Luxembourg had won two years running and the second year declined hosting duties due to cost.
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Assassination leads to the start of the Rwandan genocide
The civil war in the Rwanda had been ongoing since 1990. On April 6th 1994 the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira were travelling together in an aircraft. It was shot down with a surface to air missile as the aircraft was coming in to land.
This assassination triggered the start of the Rwandan genocide, where hundreds of thousands of people were systematically murdered.
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