Historical calendar

1443 - Gjergj Kastriot Skënderbeu raised the national flag over the Kruja fortress. After liberating Kruja on November 28, 1443,...

1912 - Spain declares a protectorate off the north coast of Morocco. The treaty between France and Spain concerning Morocco...

1912- In the square in front of the National Library in Tirana, the flag of Independence was raised for the...

1913- Petro Marko was born in Dhërmi, teacher, publicist, journalist, member of the Communist Group of Tirana, interbrigadist and Albanian...

1943 - USS Liscome Bay, a US aircraft carrier, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in Tarawa Bay during World...

1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian border commission in Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison in Walwal, which had entered Ethiopia. This leads...

1943 - A conference is held in Cairo, Egypt, where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...

1916 - Franz Joseph I die in Vienna at the age of 86. Franz Joseph, was Emperor of Austria, King...

1910 - Leon Tolstoy dies at the age of 82 in Atsapovo. Tolstoy, was a Russian writer considered one of...

1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn form Goldwyn Pictures. Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company...