On March 20, 1592, Lekë Matrënga completed the translation into Albanian of the “Faithful Christian Catechism”. This is one of the first translations in our language known to this day.

Lekë Matrënga was a priest from Hora e Arbëresh, the largest arboretum in Sicily, Italy. A student at the College of St. Athanasius in Rome and the Byzantine Greek Pope of the Eparchy, he founded a school in his native place. Matranga uses for his text the Arbëresh language spoken in Piana degli Albanesi, modified by some phonetic features, so that it can also be understood by the Arbëresh people of other colonies.

On March 20, 1802, Ali Pasha Tepelena addressed the king of the two Sicilies, to introduce the merchant Gjon Kristodhuli. Practically this letter represents a consular document. The relations of the Pasha of Ioannina with the great powers of the time, England, France, and Russia, testify to his intense diplomatic activity.

In Corfu, on March 20, 1829, Vangjel Meksi translated and published the New Testament. The book was published under the supervision of Grigor Gjirokastriti. The book spread in Albania and influenced the use of Albanian in religious services.

Qemal Stafa, revolutionary, communist, Hero of the People, was born on May 20, 1920. He was born in Elbasan, where he received his first lessons. He was a co-founder of the Communist Group of Shkodra, a member of the founding meeting of the party, a member of the Central Committee and political secretary of the youth. He wrote poems under the pseudonym Brutus, which were collected in the volume “Autumn Rebuke. Qemali was a student at the Saverian College of the Jesuit Fathers, attending it for eight years until in 1933, with the Ivanaj Law, private schools were closed and he went to the Gymnasium of Shkodra. After the death of his father, the Stafa family moved to Tirana where he enrolled in the State Gymnasium of Tirana. With the organization of Zef Mala, Qemal Stafa together with Vasil Shanto, Tuk Jakova founded the Communist Group of Shkodra. In 1938, Ahmet Zogu regime imprisoned him and sentenced him to three years in prison. Being a candidate for general secretary of the Communist Party of Albania, he was killed on May 5, 1942, in Tirana. 

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