From August 26 to 29, 1943, the "Battle of Vithkuq" took place. This was the first military action involving the First Assault Brigade, the largest military formation of the Albanian National Liberation Army up to that point.
Tuk Jakova, an activist of the communist movement, one of the leaders of the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War, a high-ranking official of the Albanian Communist Party (Party of Labor of Albania), and a People's Hero, passed away in the prison hospital in Tirana after undergoing surgery.
In the Long Livadh of the village of Greiçevc in the municipality of Suharekë, the "Ranca Massacre" took place, where Serbian military and police forces carried out a massacre against the civilian population.