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Fiqri Dine, a military officer, political activist, minister, and prime minister, passed away in Brussels, Belgium.

In Tirana, the "Italian-Albanian Pact of Friendship and Security" was signed.

The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet, a national institution for music and choreography, was established.

In Pristina, Podujeva, Gjilan, and Ferizaj, massive demonstrations of the youth and the Albanian people of Kosovo were organized, with the main demand being that Kosovo be recognized as a republic within the framework of the Yugoslav Federation.

Viktor Eftimiu, a Romanian writer of Albanian descent and an academic in Romania, passed away in Bucharest, Romania.

Ali Asllani, a poet, was born in Vlorë to a family with origins from the village of Vajzë.

Aqif Përmeti, a high-ranking military officer, General Commander of the Albanian Gendarmerie, founder and director of the first gendarmerie school, and creator of the engineering corps and military topography, was born in Përmet.

Gjon Mili, an Albanian-American photographer, was born in Korçë.

The independence of Albania was declared, an act of the National Assembly of Vlorë, through which it was announced that “Albania today becomes independent, free, and unenslaved.”

The patriotic song “Rreth flamurit të përbashkuar,” with lyrics written by Asdreni in 1912 in Bucharest, became the national anthem of Albania with the Declaration of Independence on November 28, 1912.