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.

General Oswaldo López Arellano carried out the next coup in October 1963 and a second in December 1972, followed by coups in 1975 by Juan Alberto Melgar Castro and in 1978 by Policarpo Paz García.

The Congress appointed Carlos Brenes Jarquín, a Somoza García associate, as interim president and postponed presidential elections until December.

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, and Soderbergh in December 2001

Sigler is friends with fellow actress Joanna García, and served as a bridesmaid in García's December 2010 wedding to professional baseball player Nick Swisher.

Some months later, in December 1923, Chávez visited the United States for the first time, returning in March 1924 ( García Morillo 1960, 26 ).

* " The Solitude of Latin America ", Nobel lecture by Gabriel García Márquez, 8 December 1982

Ramón Antonio García Fortunato ( born December 9, 1969 in Guanare, Portuguesa State, Venezuela ) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for the Chicago White Sox ( 1991 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1996 ) and Houston Astros ( 1997 ).

Rosman José García ( January 3, 1979 – December 29, 2011 ) was a Venezuelan relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 2003 through 2004 for the Texas Rangers.

Brigadier General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García ( 24 January 1930 – 9 December 2009 ) was President of Guatemala from 1 July 1974 to 1 July 1978.

A recent example is the assassination of a leading PCC figure, Arturo Díaz García, on December 21, 2005 in the corregimiento of Toche in the municipality of Ibague, Tolima.

Calixto García e Iñiguez ( August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898 ) was a general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: Ten Years ' War, the Little War and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish-American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba.

García died of pneumonia on December 11, 1898, at the age of 59, while on a diplomatic mission in Washington, D. C.

LG Gregorio García de la Cuesta captured the port of Collioure from the French on 20 December.

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena ( December 22, 1853June 12, 1917 ) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.

Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón ( December 24, 1821 – August 6, 1875 ) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador ( 1859-1865 and 1869-1875 ) and was assassinated during his second term, after being elected to a third term.

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, and Steven Soderbergh visited the base in December 2001

* The cast of the film Ocean's Eleven George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts along with director Steven Soderbergh, toured Incirlik on 7 December 2001, immediately following their movie's premiere in Los Angeles, to show American servicemen their appreciation for serving their country.

Policarpo Juan Paz García ( 7 December 1932 – 16 April 2000 ) was a Honduran military leader and autocrat who served as President of Honduras from 7 August 1978 until 27 January 1982.

Borja García ( born 15 December 1982 ) is a Spanish race car driver.

In December 2004, María Julia Mantilla García won the title of Miss World again, thanks to a world-wide vote by text message and telephone calls, a first in pageant history.

The city of Cañete was later founded between December of 1557 and January of 1558 by the Governor García Hurtado de Mendoza with the name of Cañete de la Frontera three kilometers to the west of the present location of the city.

In December 1910, a Banfield squad including William Peterson, Roger Jacobelli, Amador García, Carlos Lloveras, Galup Lanus and Bartholomew, amongst others, faced Racing in a two legged playoff for a place in the top division.

On 8 December 1595, Captain Damián Meneses ( under the orders of García Hurtado de Mendoza, Viceroy of Peru ) fulfilled the royal edict and definitively founded Zaruma.

Though González García was not retained in his post by Kirchner's wife and successor, Cristina Kirchner, when she took office in December 2007, and was instead appointed Ambassador to Chile, he was influential in the appointment of a new health minister, Juan Luis Manzur, in July 2009.

After premiering in July 1984, Brothers completed the run of its first 26-episode season in December of that year, with the now-popular Brothers Christmas Special ( featuring guest star Andy García ) serving as the season finale.