Agnia Vasilevna Desnickaya, Russian linguist, professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, albanologist, passed away in Russia.
The "Massacre of Ribar" occurred on April 18, 1999, when Serbian army and police forces, supported by local Serbs, carried out a brutal attack on Albanian civilians in the village of Ribar in the municipality of Lipjan.
On April 18, 1937 , the first issue of the newspaper "Shtypi" (1937-1939), a political, social, cultural, literary, economic, financial, etc. newspaper was published in Tirana.
On April 16, 1724 (or 1725), Jul Variboba (1724–1788), an Arbëresh poet, was born in Mbuzat (Italian: San Giorgio Albanese) in the province of Cosenza.
