November 13, 2002
On this day, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced that Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana and Michelle Branch would headline the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway. President Jimmy Carter received the prestigious award in 2002. Willie sang:Â Always on My Mind, The Great Divide, and at the request of President Carter, he sang, Georgia on My Mind.
“For his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”
Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States of America
Born: 1924