1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House is inaugurated in New York, USA. This building was an opera house located at...

1940 - Famous American writer Ernest Hemingway publishes his work For Whom the Bell Tolls. In this book he describes...

1900 - Albanian poet and writer Naim Frashëri, one of the most prominent representatives of the National Renaissance and the...

1920 - Born in the village of Gllavicica (Shengjon-Kokaj) near Peja, Mark Krasniqi, professor, academic, politician and Albanian writer from...

1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation, otherwise known as the BBC, is founded in London. This company would soon become...

1937 - Joseph Bruce Ismay, the wealthy oligarch and owner of the famous White Star Line company, dies at the...

1888 - Hysni Babameto was born in Gjirokastra. He was a patriot, mathematics teacher and Albanian educator, one of the...

1886 - Born in Korça, Dhimitër Berati, who was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence of Albania, Albanian politician...

1943 - The famous exile revolt takes place in one of the most horrific Holocaust extermination camps, that of Sobibor...

1892 - American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard becomes the first person in human history to photograph a comet up close....