On this day in 1981, a team of 10 divers recovered 431 gold bars worth US$83 million from the wreckage of the "Edinburgh," a British cruiser sunk by German destroyers and a U-boat in the Barents Sea in 1942.
On this day in 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.