Calendar: Week of December 7
Here's a look at the week ahead on our "Sunday Morning" Calendar:
Monday marks the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Memorial ceremonies are planned around the country, including 10 hours of live-streamed events from Pearl Harbor itself, beginning at 7:00 a.m. Hawaii Time (12:00 p.m. ET).
- Remains of 7 Pearl Harbor "unknowns" identified (11/10/15)
- Survivors of Pearl Harbor gather to remember (12/07/14)
- Almanac: Pearl Harbor ("Sunday Morning," 12/07/14)
- World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, Pearl Harbor (National Park Service)
- Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor
- Pacific Historic Parks
On Tuesday, Paul Simon and other artists headline a benefit concert in New Orleans. The concert honors local R&B musician Allen Toussaint, who died last month at the age of 77.
- "A Tribute to Allen Toussaint, Featuring Paul Simon and Friends," at the Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans, December 8 (Sold out)
- New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness
- Bill Flanagan: A tribute to Allen Toussaint
On Wednesday, Time magazine reveals its Person of the Year for 2015. The Ebola Fighters were last year's honorees.
Thursday sees the award ceremonies for this year's Nobel Prizes. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway; the five others are held in Stockholm, Sweden.
- nobelprize.org
- 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for breakthroughs against malaria, parasites
- 2015's Nobel prize-winning economist has practical punch
- Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- Nobel Prize in physics awarded for neutrino "changing flavors" finding
- Nobel for Chemistry goes to Duke professor, 2 others
- Tunisian "quartet" wins Nobel Peace Prize
Friday is the latest deadline for Congress to pass a new spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown.
- Negotiations to fund government and avoid shutdown hit a snag (CBS News, 12/02/15)
And Saturday brings the annual Running of the Santas charity event in Philadelphia, with some 10,000 people expected to take part.
- Running of the Santas: Philly, with party at The Electric Factory, Dec. 12 | Tickets