Historical Calendar January 02
1896 - Born in Byalistok, Dziga Vertov. Vertov was a film director, documentary, news director, and a Russian cinema theorist....
Historical Calendar January 01
1920 - Shaban Demiraj, a well-known Albanian linguist, albanologist and academic, is born in Vlora. He was the president of...
Historical Calendar 31 December
1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the first incandescent flame to the public in Menlo Park, New Jersey. The first successful...
Historical Calendar 30 December
1916 - Russian priest and Tsar adviser Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is assassinated by a group of officers led by Prince...
“The prisoner Sezai Garo from Korça, as a punishment, was put in the pig hut of the commander Tasi Marko and after three days, when the police…”/ Shocking testimonies from the Maliqi Swamp
From Vepror Hasani The first part Memorie.al / "In the marsh with reeds of Maliq, a strange voice started to...
Hekuran Isai: “Comrade Enver, Elham Gjika, Kristofor Mërtiri, Kapllan Shehu, as well as Nesti Kerenxhi, who we took…”/ Bureau meeting, September 10, 1983, were tried and put in prison.
Dashnor Kaloçi Part eleven Memorie.al/ publishes some archival documents extracted from the Central State Archive in Tirana (Fund of the...
“On December 9, 1977, after escaping from the Spaç camp, they walked for 13 days in the frost and snow, but when they reached the border with Yugoslavia…”/ The tragic story of two imprisoned minorities
By A. Cano Memorie.al / Manol Qirici and Stavro Guxo crossed the borders of Spaçi camp on December 9, 1977...
Historical Calendar 29 December
1911 - Sun Yat Sen becomes interim President of the Republic of China. He officially takes office on January 1,...
“After we were released from the auto-jail, in the most horrible way, the policemen told us; black and white, don’t lick my head, wash it like skin, stick to it…”/ The rare confession of the ex-prisoner
By Shkelqim Abazi Memorie.al / Kampin-burg of Repsi, they had installed it to the right of the Fan valley,...
Historical Calendar 28 December
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which would later be...