On January 20, 1916, the Italian consul Domenico De Facendis left Shkodra, which was being occupied by the Austrians. For three consecutive years, there was no official direction for the consulate.

January 20, 1921 is the Day of Military engineering of the Albanian Army.

On January 20, 1954, the Police Academy of the Interior Ministry was established, which included police, security and border courses.

On January 20, 1995, the patriot Klito Lamaj passed away. He was born in Kanina in Vlora in a well-known patriotic family in 1929. At the age of 17, when he was in the second year of the Commercial School, in Vlora, he founded the “Nationalist Student and Rural Youth Organization”. For this, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The prison became his school; there he devoted himself as much as he could to his studies, acquiring several foreign languages. He died, at the age of 66, on January 20, 1995, giving a speech in front of about 400 men, after pronouncing the words “Albania of the Albanians…”

On January 20, 2010, Pashko Gjeçi, a well-known poet, teacher and translator, passed away. He was born in Tirana on September 7, 1918. In the academic year 1938, he enrolled in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Rome. On July 15, 1942, he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Science in that faculty with excellent results. After returning to Albania, on September 4th, 1947, he was arrested on the charge of “Participation in a group against the government” and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released in 1952. In the years 1954-1958, he worked as a teacher at the eight-year school in Fushë-Kruja, during which time he served as a translator of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”. From 1968 to 1972 he taught Latin at the Faculty of Medicine. Meanwhile, in 1969 “Comedy” is published in Kosovo. “Odyssey” was published in 1976. He died at the age of 91.

On January 20, 1945, the patriot from Shkodra, Marie Shllaku, participated in the Assembly of Drenica, where she gave a fiery speech, which had an impact on the reconciliation of the two leaders of the Drenica War: Shaban Palluzha and Mehmet Gradica. She was born in Shkodër on October 22, 1922. As an outstanding patriot, she knew that the salvation of the nation could only come had all Albanians united, regardless of religion and regional division. She was sentenced to death in Prizren in November 1946, after the trial that was held against her along with 26 other fighters committed to the unification of Albanian lands.

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