Calendar: Week of August 14
Here's a look at the week ahead on our "Sunday Morning" Calendar:
On Monday, author Danielle Steel celebrates her 70th birthday.
- Danielle Steel: I don't write romance novels ("The Early Show," 09/21/10)
- Danielle Steel's recurring theme: Hope (CBS News, 07/16/08)
- daniellesteel.com
- Follow @DanielleSteel on Twitter and Facebook
- Danielle Steel's latest book is "The Right Time" (Macmillan)
Tuesday sees a special primary election in Alabama to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
- Alabama Senate Special Election Release (alabama.gov)
Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley at his Graceland mansion at the age of 42.
- elvis.com (Official site)
- The Guest House at Graceland, Memphis
- Graceland (Official site)
- Follow @VisitGraceland on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
- 10 fascinating facts about The King
- How a $4 dollar recording gave birth to Elvis ("CBS Evening News," 01/08/15)
- Mark Knoller: Covering the death of Elvis ("CBS Evening News," 08/16/07)
- Almanac: When Nixon met Elvis ("Sunday Morning," 12/21/14)
On Thursday Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis host their Japanese counterparts at a security meeting in Washington.
Friday kicks off the Pokémon World Championships in Anaheim, California -- three days' worth of card trading and video competitions.
- 2017 Pokémon World Championships, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaherim, Calif. (August 18-20)
- Chicago Pokémon Go festival kicks off with fans unable to log in (CBS News, 07/22/17)
- Celebrities join "Pokemon Go" craze (CBS News, 07/15/16)
- This new Pokemon game is causing some real-world bruises (07/08/16)
- Oliver Stone: Pokemon Go is "totalitarianism" (CBS News, 07/21/16)
- pokemon.com
And Saturday is National Aviation Day, a celebration of flight that is held every year on the birthday of aviation pioneer Orville Wright.
- National Aviation Day, August 19 (First Flight Society)
- The Wright Brothers and the conquest of flight ("Sunday Morning," 05/03/15)
- Wright brothers: Were they really the first to fly? ("CBS This Morning," 04/01/13)
- The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age (Smithsonian)
- The Wright Brothers at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan
- wrightbrothers.info
- Gallery: Preserving U.S. aviation history
- Gallery: 100 years of Boeing
- Gallery: Pan Am, an aviation trailblazer
- Gallery: Breaking the sound barrier
