An example of active passenger and crew member resistance occurred when passengers and flight attendants of American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001, teamed up to help helped prevent Richard Reid from igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

A former law student and muezzin, Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami ( Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النامي, ; also transliterated as Alnami ) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 7, 1977 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001.

On 21 December 2001, a major reorganisation of the Ground Forces produced two operational-territorial commands, formed from two former corps headquarters.

Barbara Olson ( December 27, 1955 September 11, 2001 ) was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

Carolyn Ann Mayer-Beug ( December 11, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a filmmaker and video producer from Santa Monica, California.

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

* Spectres of Agrarian Territory by David Ludden 11 December 2001

Green filed for divorce in December 2001.

A B-1 bomber was lost on 12 December 2001 to mechanical failures just after take off from the island, but the crew survived and was rescued by the USS Russell ( DDG-59 ).

DS1's ion engines were shut down on 18 December 2001 at approximately 20: 00: 00 UTC, signaling the end of the mission.

Donald G. Tennant ( November 23, 1922 – December 8, 2001 ) was an American advertising agency executive.

* In December 2001, the United States ' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris's The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.

Following the completion of a one-year stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in December 2001, Ecuador successfully negotiated a new $ 205 million stand-by agreement with the IMF in March 2003.

* 2001: Alibaba. com achieved profitability in December 2001.

" The American Spectator ( December 2000 / January 2001 ).

# The Shadows of Luclin ( December 2001 )

Eric Cheney ( 5 January 1924 – 30 December 2001 ) was an independent British motorcycle designer and constructor.

It was readmitted to the Commonwealth in December 2001, following the parliamentary election held to restore democracy in September that year, and is currently suspended again after the 2006 coup.

President Daniel Moi of Kenya issued a decree against it in December 2001.

On 4 December 2001, Marike de Klerk was found stabbed and violently strangled to death in her Cape Town flat.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

The party's newspaper Proleter ( December 1932 ) stated: " salute the Ustaša movement of the peasants of Lika and Dalmatia and fully support them.

On Monday 23 December 2011, in an interview on Turkish newspaper BirGün discussing secret budgets, former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz admitted that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in Greece between 1995 and 1997 during the Prime Ministership of Tansu Ciller as part of state-sponsored sabotage, resulting in huge damage caused by major forest fires on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

In December, he founded New York's first daily newspaper, American Minerva ( later known as the Commercial Advertiser ), and edited it for four years, writing the equivalent of 20 volumes of articles and editorials.

It is unknown whether he had obtained a copy of Hill ’ s booklet or if he had simply read about it in The Times newspaper, which had, on two occasions, on 25 March 1837 and on 20 December 1837, reported in great detail Hill ’ s proposals.

In December 2009 however, a positive impact of UAE citizens in the workplace was identified in a newspaper article citing a yet unpublished study, this advantage being the use of networks within the evolving power structures.

* British Colonist newspaper in Victoria, complete text December 1858 to June 1910, searchable

* December 4 – The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

* December 31 – Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist

* December 9 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.

* December 9 – American newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot.

* December 27 – American journalist John L. O ' Sullivan claims in a newspaper article that the United States have a " Manifest Destiny " to expand their borders.

* December 9 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

* December 22 – Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.

The state-by-state roll call was printed in the newspaper the Farmer's Cabinet on 13 December 1839:

PUWP's newspaper " Trybuna Ludu " issue 13 December 1981 reports Martial law in Poland.

After the Völkischer Beobachter became the Nazi party newspaper ( December, 1920 ), Rosenberg became its editor in 1923.

In Taiwan, a newspaper article headlined " Group urges more support for Prader-Willi sufferers " appeared in English in the Taipei Times in December 2011, highlighting a recent tragedy in which a taxi cab driver killed himself and his nine-year-old daughter who had the disease in what police called a probable murder-suicide.

In December 1997, London's The Independent newspaper published a leaked internal RUC document which reported that a third of all Catholic RUC officers had suffered religious discrimination and / or harassment from Protestant fellow officers.

In December 2005, Kleanthis Grivas published an article in To Proto Thema, a Greek Sunday newspaper, in which he accused " Sheepskin ", the Greek branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary organization during the Cold War, of the assassination of CIA station chief Richard Welch in Athens in 1975, as well as of the assassination of Stephen Saunders in 2000.

The name was not originally chosen by Chad Varah: it was part of a headline to an article in the Daily Mirror newspaper on 7 December 1953 about Varah's work.

The original claim that Karzai worked for Unocal originates from a 6 December 2001 issue of the French newspaper Le Monde, Barry Lane UNOCAL's manager for public relations states that, " He was never a consultant, never an employee.

On 3 December 1973, agents of the DST, disguised as plumbers, were caught trying to install a spy microphone in the offices of the Canard Enchaîné newspaper.