Timeline December 2007

Events in December 2007 11

• 2001 – 2007 Stony Brook and Later Novels Joined the MFA programme at Stony Brook Southampton as an instructor. Published The Worst Thing I've Done (2007), her final novel set in the Burgdorf cycle.
• 2005 – 2007 Spamalot Created the role of King Arthur in the Broadway premiere of Monty Python's Spamalot, earning his third Tony Award nomination. Played the role for three years across Chicago, New York and London.
• 2007 2007: Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari Finnish driver Räikkönen, the Iceman, won the title in his first season at Ferrari by a single point, after McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso imploded in a bitter intra-team feud.
• 2007 Breakthrough with Coffee Prince and White Tower Achieved mainstream popularity with two hit television dramas: the medical drama Behind the White Tower and the romantic comedy Coffee Prince.
• 2007 Netflix streaming launches Video-on-demand revolution begins Netflix launched its video streaming service in 2007, initially alongside DVD rentals. Within a decade it had transformed how the world watches television and film.
• 2007 Bali Climate Change Conference UN talks produce the Bali Road Map The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali produced the Bali Road Map, a framework for negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. It set a two-year timetable for reaching a new global climate agreement.
• 2007 Led Zeppelin reunite at the O2 Arena Ahmet Ertegun tribute A full concert with Jason Bonham, with 20 million ticket requests.
• 2007 Dan Fogelberg (1951-2007) Died 16 December 2007, aged 56 American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, known for hits such as "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne," died at his home in Maine after a battle with prostate cancer.
• 2007 Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) Died 23 December 2007, aged 82 Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, one of the most celebrated virtuosos in jazz history, died at his home near Toronto. He recorded prolifically over six decades and won multiple Grammy Awards.
• 2007 Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) Died 27 December 2007, aged 54 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi. Her death, weeks before scheduled elections, triggered widespread unrest across Pakistan.
• 2007 Kenyan election crisis begins Disputed presidential vote triggers ethnic violence The disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki over opposition leader Raila Odinga triggered widespread ethnic violence across Kenya. The unrest killed over a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands before a power-sharing deal was reached in early 2008.