Gandhi didn't get a Nobel Peace prize?
The Nobel Prize is generally for longevity; Gandhi died only a few years after independence. They essentially awarded him the prize posthumously, which is an honor I believe only given to him.
I now feel personally insulted on the behalf of my species by the entire Nobel Peace prize institution.
Keep your identity small!
The Nobel Prize is generally for longevity;
It's my understanding that the Peace Prize is the one case where that doesn't hold, because it's often given to grant support to a nascent, positive movement:
Unlike the scientific and literary Nobel Prizes, usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the awarded achievement, the Peace Prize has been awarded for more recent or immediate achievements.
(And there was certainly no wait for longevity in the 2009 award to the recently-elected Obama, even if he did deserve it.)
A reminder for everyone: on this day in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
It occurs to me this time around that there's an interesting relationship here - 9/26 is forgotten, while 9/11 is remembered. Do something charitable, and not patriotic, sometime today.