--- title: Nobel Peace Prize: Why It's Always Presented on the Same Day description: The winner is announced earlier, but the medal is given on Dec. 10 every year canonical: https://time.com/4134930/nobel-peace-prize-december-10/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-10T11:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:56.974Z article:section: History og:title: Nobel Peace Prize: Why It's Always Presented on the Same Day og:description: The winner is announced earlier, but the medal is given on Dec. 10 every year og:url: https://time.com/4134930/nobel-peace-prize-december-10/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt183afed68f5967aa/698873aacd1bba04106fe5b4/nobel.jpeg?branch=production&width=629&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 629 og:image:height: 354 og:image:alt: Alfred Nobel (1833-96) Swedish chemist and inventor. Dynamite. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Memorable Nobel Peace Prize Speeches [Watch (HLS stream): Memorable Nobel Peace Prize Speeches](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HMrEJltm.m3u8) (2:27)  _Published 2015-10-08. Memorable Nobel Peace Prize Speeches_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 10, 2015 11:00 AM UTC  Alfred Nobel (1833-96), Swedish chemist and inventor, pictured circa 1750 Alfred Nobel (1833-96), Swedish chemist and inventor, pictured circa 1750 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 10, 2015 11:00 AM UTC It’s been months since the [Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet](http://time.com/4067755/nobel-peace-prize-winner-national-dialogue-quartet-tunisia/) was announced as the winner of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, but in the intervening weeks they’ve been laureates in name only: Thursday is the day on which the honorees will actually receive the Nobel medal and have a chance to deliver a Nobel lecture. That date is no coincidence. Ever since the first Nobel prizes were awarded in 1901, they have been conferred on Dec. 10\. The first ceremony took place five years to the day after Nobel died, and it has since become what the Nobel Committee [calls](http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en%5FGB/about%5Fpeaceprize/important-dates/) an “established tradition.” The date was one of the very few instructions for the prizes that Nobel didn’t specify in his will, as TIME has [explained](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1930515,00.html) before: --- > “” --- **_Read more about the history of the Nobel Prize:_** [_The Tragic Nobel Peace Prize Story You’ve Probably Never Heard_](http://time.com/3484975/nobel-peace-prize-ossietzky/) [_Why a Nobel Peace Prize Was Once Rejected_](http://time.com/4061794/nobel-peace-prize-winner-history/) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace [ BLANK_AUDIO ] At a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Are engaged in a creative battle When the long night of racial injustice- Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscious of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief And freedom from fear and want, has been proclaimed as a highest aspirations of the common people. We speak here of the challenge, of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and nonviolence. Racism and human dignity. Oppression and repression. And liberty and human rights. We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency, a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential, even as we. Gathered here. But there is hopeful news as well. We have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst, though not all, of its consequences if we act boldly, decisively, and quickly. I represent millions of those children who are left And that's why I have kept an empty chair as to remind us a reminder. I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children. Because they're all of our [ UNKNOWN ] It does not matter what's the color the skin, what language that you speak, what religion you believe it. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other. We should all fight for our rights, for the rights of children, for the rights of woman, and for the rights for every human being. 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