On this day... December 6:

On this day...

December 6: Independence Day in Finland (1917) 1060 – Béla I the Champion (bust pictured) was crowned king of Hungary. 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1907 – At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion destroyed a mine in Monongah, West Virginia, leading to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines. 1956 – At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. 1989 – Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal.