Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

On 16 October 1984 the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Bishop Desmond Tutu, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, had won the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent campaign against apartheid. He was in New York when the news came. He received the prize in Oslo on 10 December, at a ceremony delayed by a bomb threat, and used the speech to describe, calmly, what was being done in his country.