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In Hoçisht of Korça, in the war against the Italian invaders, Fuat Babani (1918-1943), participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed.

In the village of Prekaz i Epërm in Drenica, during the macabre three-day attack by the Serbian military and paramilitary forces against the Jashari family, fell martyr the commander-in-chief Adem Jashari (1955-1998), founder of the Kosova Liberation Army, legendary fighter and commander, hero of the Liberation War of the people of Kosova.

Berit Becker (Backer), norwegian researcher in the field of social anthropology, passed away.

Giuseppe Gangale was born, one of the first contributors to preserving Arbëresh’s identity memory.

Kostandin Kristoforidhi, scholar and researcher of the Albanian language, activist of the National Renaissance in education and culture, passed away.

Zef Serembe (Giuseppe, 1843–1901), Arbëresh lyric poet, was born in Strigar in Cosenza (Italy).

Lazër Mjeda (1869–1935), catholic clergyman, founder of the cultural society "Agimi" and defender of the national cause, was born in Shkodër.

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The law “Mbi ndalimin e mbulesës së gruas” ("On banning women's veil") was adopted, according to which offenders were fined up to 500 gold francs.

In Ramicë of Vlora, Ramize Gjebrea, a former student of the girls’ school "Nëna Mbretneshë", a flag-bearer of the anti-fascist youth demonstration in Tirana, a partisan, responsible for the youth of the fifth brigade, an intellectual, publicist, and descendant from Kaçanik (Kosova), who fought for freedom and national unity, was executed.