Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

In December 2009, the growth of tourism, with consequences for both the ecology and the safety of the travellers in its great and remote wilderness, was noted at a conference in New Zealand by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty.

This production transferred to Broadway on December 13, 2009, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

Lieutenant general Yurij Viktorovich Zhadobin is the Minister of Defense since December 4, 2009.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )

On December 1, 2006, Selig announced that he would be retiring as commissioner of baseball upon the expiration of his contract in 2009.

It was granted planning permission in December 2009 and is expected for completion by 2013.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

The next congressional elections are scheduled for December 2009.

$ 4. 647 billion ( 31 December 2009 est.

In December 2009, some Caltech students declared that MIT had been sold and had become the Caltech East campus.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

Talks of past December collapses resurfaced, and another collapse in 2009 seemed validated.

On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins ; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20 – 16.

On December 10, 2009 the RingTales produced animations were made available as a calendar application for mobile devices.

Stephen Arthur Cook ( born December 14, 1939, Buffalo, New York ) is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

Millennium Park was designed by world renowned architect Manfredi Nicoletti and was officially opened by the United Kingdom's Elizabeth II in December 2003.

Butler W. Lampson ( born December 23, 1943 ) is a renowned computer scientist.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses ( September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961 ), better known as " Grandma Moses ", was a renowned American folk artist.

* Christopher Wiley Antley ( January 6, 1966 – December 2, 2000 ) was a renowned American jockey.

Philip Francis Berrigan ( October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002 ) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest.

In December 2007 Nazario released her album " Real " produced by renowned producer Armando Avila ( La 5ª Estación ) and Graeme Pleeth ( Sonique ).

Shunryu Suzuki ( 鈴木 俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū, dharma name Shōgaku Shunryū 祥岳俊隆, often called Suzuki Roshi ) ( born May 18, 1904, Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan ; died December 4, 1971 in San Francisco, CA, USA ) was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia ( Tassajara Zen Mountain Center ).

Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel ( born 3 February 1677 in Prague – died 7 December 1723 in Prague ) was a renowned Czech architect of Italian origin ( His grandfather Antonin Aichel moved from Italy to Prague in the 1630s ), he became famous by Baroque gothic style.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi ( 16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004 ), also known as M. S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.

John Loughborough Pearson ( 15 July 1817 – 11 December 1897 ) was a Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals.

Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL. D., ( December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851 ) was a renowned American pioneer in the education of the Deaf.

Meanwhile, some renowned figures of Basque folk music have kept on performing and creating, e. g. Benito Lertxundi, Mikel Laboa ( died in December 2008 ) or Oskorri ( fresh album Banda band in 2007, about to celebrate the ensemble's 35 anniversary ).

Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 — December 13, 1996 ), born as Wan Jiabao ( T: 萬家寶, S: 万家宝, P: Wàn Jiābǎo ), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century.

On December 22, 1929, the boys ' choir organized their first full concert: a Christmas liturgy at the Münster with the locally renowned soprano Helene Sandreuter, which was a big success.

AMS agents Thomas Rogan and ' G ' are sent on an assignment on December 18, 1998 to investigate a series of disappearances at the Curien Mansion, home and laboratory of Dr. Roy Curien, a renowned biochemist and geneticist.

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010 ), was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman.

The renowned countertenor, Iestyn Davies, interviewed by Mark Lawson on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on 16 December 2009, referred to Wilson's lead on " Good Vibrations " as " wonderful male alto solo ; exactly the same sound you'd hear from a good singer in a cathedral or on a Baroque opera stage.

Mary died on 9 December 1996 at the age of 83, a renowned palaeoanthropologist, who had not only conducted significant research of her own, but had been invaluable to the research careers of her husband Louis Leakey and their sons Richard, Philip and Jonathan.

Arnulf Rainer ( born 8 December 1929, in Baden, Austria ), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art.

Muhammad Jamiruddin Sarkar ( Bengali: জম ী র ু দ ্ দ ি ন সরক া র ) ( born December 1, 1931 ) is a Barrister and a renowned politician from Bangladesh.

Pierre Louÿs ( December 10, 1870 – June 6, 1925 ) was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings.

Louis Jouvet ( 24 December 1887-16 August 1951 ) was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director.

Ramakanta Rath () ( born 13 December 1934 ) is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Oriya literature.