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.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On December 15, 2002, on the ensuing trial highlights the government's failure to demonstrate in court that the alleged coup attempt had ever actually taken place.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

In December 1868 the court rejected a motion to nullify the indictment, but the prosecution dropped the case in February 1869.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

Warren G. Harding had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three court protocols were signed by him.

After being tried and convicted by a kangaroo court for genocide and other crimes, they were executed on December 25, 1989.

In December 2007, Hamdi Quran confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze ' evi together with Basel al-Asmar after being instructed by PFLP member Majdi Rahima Rimawi.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In December 1483 Richard instituted what later became known as the Court of Requests, a court to which poor people who could not afford legal representation could apply for their grievances to be heard.

* December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

* December 15 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I ( b. 1756 )

* December 14 – Ganlu Incident: In the northeast sector of the Chinese capital Chang ' an, after a failure by the chancellor Li Xun to slaughter the powerful eunuchs, troops under the eunuchs ' command slaughter many court officials and Li Xun's associates.

A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.

On 28 December 1791, three and a half weeks after Mozart's death, his widow Constanze offered to send a manuscript score of The Magic Flute to the electoral court in Bonn.

On 24 December 1903, after receiving a court ruling that performances in the United States could not be prevented by Bayreuth, the New York Metropolitan Opera staged the complete opera, using many Bayreuth-trained singers.

On 22 December 2003, the appeals court agreed with the acquittal, and on 5 January 2004, Norway's Økokrim ( Economic Crime Unit ) decided not to pursue the case further.

On 15 December 2011, the Paris court declared him guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, and gave Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence.

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold ; the vote on the court was 5 to 4.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.