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.

* Lew Allen, Jr., July 22, 1982 – December 31, 1990

William Allen ( December 18 or 27, 1803 – July 11, 1879 ) was an Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.

* December 28 – Hervey Allen, American author ( b. 1889 )

* December 31 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer, songwriter ( d. 1999 )

* December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.

* December 1 – Woody Allen, American film director

Allen Granberry Thurman ( November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895 ) was a Democratic Representative, Ohio Supreme Court justice, and Senator from Ohio, as well as the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in 1888.

His playing can be heard on recordings by Henry " Red " Allen from July 1929 (" Biff ' ly Blues " and " Feeling Drowsy "), and Barbarin played on the first recordings by Louis Armstrong to feature the instrument – " Rockin ' Chair " ( December 1929 ) and " Song of the Islands " ( January 1930 ).

From June 1957 to December 1961, Allen was assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, as the science adviser to the Physics Division of the Air Force Special Weapons Center.

Allen was assigned in December 1961 to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Space Technology Office, in the Directorate of Research and Engineering, Washington, D. C. From June 1965 to February 1973, he was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, initially in Los Angeles, California, as the Deputy Director for Advanced Plans in the Directorate of Special Projects.

On December 5, 2006, disappointed with the direction the team was headed, Allen Iverson gave the 76ers management an ultimatum: find players who will help support me or trade me.

On December 19, 2006, Allen Iverson, along with Ivan McFarlin, were sent to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for guard Andre Miller, forward Joe Smith, and two first-round draft picks.

On December 2, 2009, the Philadelphia 76ers announced that they had signed Allen Iverson to a one-year prorated $ 1. 3 million non-guaranteed contract.

On December 19, 2006, the Nuggets traded Joe Smith, Andre Miller and two first-round draft picks of the 2007 NBA Draft to the Philadelphia 76ers for Ivan McFarlin and superstar Allen Iverson ( McFarlin was waived immediately following the trade's approval ).

Additional townships were laid out as follows: Jackson in 1829 ; Liberty and Marion in December 1830 ; Big Lick, Blanchard and Van Buren in 1831 ; Washington, Union, and Eagle in 1832 ; Cass and Portage in 1833 ; Pleasant in 1835 ; Orange in 1836 ; Madison in 1840, and finally Allen in 1850.

Allen County was created on December 17, 1823, out of Delaware and Randolph counties and formed April 1, 1824.

On December 25, 1881 the Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street, offering the miners and Cowboys their kind of bawdy entertainment.

, members of the Readington Township Committee are Mayor Thomas S. Auriemma ( term of office as mayor / councilmember ends December 31, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Julia C. Allen ( term as deputy member ends 2012 ; term on council ends 2014 ), Betty Ann Fort ( 2012 ), Frank L. Gatti ( 2014 ), Beatrice Muir ( 2012 ).

John Allen Muhammad ( December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009 ) was a convicted murderer On November 9, 2009, the Supreme Court of the United States refused a last-minute appeal.

Stephen Valentine Patrick William " Steve " Allen ( December 26, 1921-October 30, 2000 ) was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer.

* December 1 – Woody Allen, Candid Camera writer, American film director

On 31 December 1984, drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash on the A57 in the hills outside the band's home city Sheffield, when his Corvette swerved off the road on a sharp bend and went through a drystone wall.

In December 1957, Red Allen made an appearance on the " Sound Of Jazz " television show.

* December 28-Hervey Allen, U. S. author