December 6 in history: • 1060 – Béla I (pictured) was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár. → go there • 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. → go there • 1942 – The Holocaust: Members of the German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka within occupied Poland for helping Jews. → go there • 1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later. → go there • 1990 – An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people. → go there Born 1645: Maria de Dominici Wiki link Born 1685: Marie Adélaïde of Savoy Wiki link Born 1885: Winifred Hoernlé Wiki link Died 2005: Devan Nair Wiki link Pictured: Béla I of Hungary.