The partisan battalion "Antonio Gramshi" was formed, a partisan formation of the Albanian National Liberation Army, composed of former anti-fascist Italian soldiers. After the capitulation of Fascist Italy on September 8, 1943, they responded to the call of the General Staff of the Albanian National Liberation Army to fight against the German Nazis.
In Tirana, the "First Group of Deputies," anti-communist deputies in the first communist parliament of Albania, was executed. They openly and organized in defense of Western democratic principles and took it upon themselves to oppose the regime in parliament.
Safet Omeri, a member of the group of Albanian landscape painters from the late 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, was born in Elbasan.