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.

On December 17, however, Bradley observed that the star was moving southwards, a motion further shown by observations on the 20th.

This was stopped, however, on 10 December before it could reach Barcelonnette, as the priest of the subprefecture had intervened.

The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $ 14. 6 billion ($ 8. 08 billion in 1982 dollars ).

This foray into government policy making, however, ended in a new currency crisis that December and the failure ( compounded by the company's lackluster business performance ) resulted in Born's 1991 ouster from the board ; he was replaced by Chief Operations Officer Octavio Caraballo.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

Due to lack of budget and care, the 389 km Temuco to Puerto Montt section was abandoned in 1992 but after a $ 44m upgrade it has been back in use since 6 December 2005 with daily service between Victoria ( north of Temuco ) and Puerto Montt ; today, however only the service between Victoria and Temuco still operates.

On the Caribbean coast, however, December is by far the wettest month.

Bowing somewhat to international criticism, Azali appointed a civilian Prime Minister, Bainrifi Tarmidi, in December 1999 ; however, Azali retained the mantle of Head of State and army Commander.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

Ordinal numerals, however, are not always used when writing and pronouncing dates, and " December seven, nineteen forty-one " is also an accepted pronunciation of the date written December 7, 1941.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

The monthly unemployment rate remained at about 6 and 8 percent from December 2007 until September 2008, however, it went up to about 9 percent in October and dropped again in November 2008 to 8 percent.

* The border between the two countries is based on the Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement of 6 December 1907 ; however, a treaty signed by Ethiopia and Kenya on 9 June 1970 determines the present-day boundary, abrogating all previous boundary treaties.

Formerly, they were administered from Paris by an assisted by a secretary-general ; since December 2004, however, their administrator has been a préfet, currently Rollon Mouchel-Blaisot, with headquarters in Saint-Pierre on Réunion Island.

The King, however, agreed to the proposition on 27 December ; but he left discussion of the weight of each vote to the Estates-General itself.

Media Blasters originally planned to release Godzilla vs. Megalon on DVD and Blu-ray on December 20, 2011 ; however, due to technical difficulties with the dubbing and Toho yet to give its approval for the release, the DVD / Blu-ray release was delayed.

Following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December, James and his wife fled the nation ; James, however, returned to London for a two-week period that culminated in his final departure for France on 23 December.

In December that year, however, Williams was dismissed for irregularities in his qualifications and Wells was returned to Uppark.

" After most of the 1941 season, however, he was honorably discharged when the United States Congress released men aged 28 years and older from service, being released on December 5, 1941, two days before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

Berlusconi, however, was forced to step down in December 1994 when the Lega Nord withdrew support.

In late December 1985, however, a border dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso over the mineral rich Agacher strip erupted into a brief war.

The December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war against the United States gave the United States the leverage it needed, however, to force Moríñigo to commit himself publicly to the Allied cause.

In December 1991, a new constitution was drafted and subsequently adopted, after a popular referendum, which, however, attracted criticism from international observers who accused the government of manipulating the population and even of outright fraud.