Event:
NASA awakens its New Horizons craft from hibernation for the last time; the vessel was launched 9 years ago to travel over 3 billion miles to Pluto and will be within range to begin data collection on the planet in January 2015
More Notable Events on December 6:
1995 Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special
1994 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1992 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1975 Senator Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry
1957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
