The "Massacre of Ribar" occurred on April 18, 1999, when Serbian army and police forces, supported by local Serbs, carried out a brutal attack on Albanian civilians in the village of Ribar in the municipality of Lipjan.
On April 18, 1937 , the first issue of the newspaper "Shtypi" (1937-1939), a political, social, cultural, literary, economic, financial, etc. newspaper was published in Tirana.
On April 16, 1724 (or 1725), Jul Variboba (1724–1788), an Arbëresh poet, was born in Mbuzat (Italian: San Giorgio Albanese) in the province of Cosenza.
