Aleks Buda, personality of historiography and Albanian culture in the second half of the 20th century, first president of the Academy of Sciences of Albania (1972-1993), Teacher of the People, passed away in Tirana.
Kristaq Tutulani, anti-fascist activist and participant in the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War, poet and prose writer, martyr, was shot in Gosa of Kavaja.
In Gosë of Kavaja, Margarita Tutulani was executed, a communist activist, participant in the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War, Heroine of the People.
The "Battle of Loxhë" was a significant clash between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Serbian military and police forces, occurring in the village of Loxha near Peja.
The "Borova Massacre" took place, carried out by German Nazis in the village of Borovë in Kolonje, as a response to the resistance that the people and partisan forces made to a German division that entered the Albanian lands from Greece.