-At the beginning of April 1463, a 10-year truce between the Albanian League of Lezha and the Ottoman Empire. The Truce was broken in November of the same year, as a result of the anti-Ottoman Crusade, which was declared by Pope Pius II, which intended to free the peninsula from the Ottoman invasion.

-APRIL 4, 1949 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded. It was a mutual defense alliance, which was signed in Washington by the 12 participating powers. Albania adhered to the Alliance on April 1, 2009.

-On April 4, 1957, Murat Haxhi Çami, a patriotic clergyman from Çamëria, passed away. He was among the initiators and ardent supporters of the opening of the Albanian Club in 1909, of the uprising units and of the patriotic movement. In 1916 he immigrated to the United States. There he collaborated with “Vatra” Foundation and the patriotic press of Albanians living in the US.

-APRIL 4, 1999 – The heads of US, Italian, British, German and French diplomacy agreed on the need to “deploy an international security force” in Kosova to guarantee the return of Kosovars to their homes. That same day, the first NATO military troops arrived at Tirana International Airport, as well as a significant number of NATO helicopters, which were deployed in Albania to deal with the emergency influx of refugees from Kosova.

-APRIL 4, 2000 – Albania signed in Strasbourg the European Protocol for the abolition of the death penalty. Albania was the 40th member country of the organization to officially commit to abolishing the death penalty.

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