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On April 24, 1877 , the Russian Empire declared war on Turkey.

On April 24, 1906 , Rexhep Krasniqi (1906-1999), political and national education activist, was born in Gjakova.

On April 24, 1951, the Albanian Air Force was established.

Hashim Thaçi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosova, was born on April 24, 1968 , in the village of Burojë in the municipality of Skënderaj (Drenica).

On April 24, 1980, the National Museum of Medieval Art was inaugurated, one of the most important cultural centers in Albania and beyond.

On April 23, 1682, in the village of Hora e Arbëreshëve in Sicily (it. Piana degli Albanesi), Gjergj Guxeta (Guzzeta), the founder of the Greek-Albanian Seminary of Palermo, was born in 1734.

On April 23, 1969, in Fier, the church of St. George, built in 1782 and operational until February 6, 1969, was demolished as a result of an atheist campaign for the prohibition of religion undertaken by the government of the time.

On April 23, 1872 , Gjergj Pekmezi, linguist, was born in Tushemisht, Pogradec.

Fadil Hoxha, political activist of Kosova and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participant and leader of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War in Kosova, Hero of the People (Yugoslavia) passed away in Prishtina.

On April 22, 1865 , in Luaras of Kolonjë, Petro Nini Luarasi was born, activist of the National Renaissance and the Albanian school, publicist, Teacher of the People.