Nimete Progonati (1929–1944), participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, People's Heroine, was killed in the war against the German Nazis, in Sinjë of Dibra.
In Partinico, Italy, afflicted by an illness that caused him to go blind, Gjergj Guzzeta, the founder of the Greek-Albanian Seminary of Palermo, passed away in 1734.
The "Action of Partisan Squad Units" took place, the first action on a national scale during the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War for the liberation of several centers of the country.