-On February 9, 1899, the scientist Bilal Golemi, founder of the veterinary and zoo-technical service, was born in Golem in Kurvelesh. He specialized in microbiology at the “Pasteur” Institute in Paris. He worked as an assistant and then as a collaborator of two world-famous French microbiological scientists Ramon and Dumas (Ramó and Dymá), where he developed his talent by receiving the degree of Doctor of Sciences at the age of 27. He created the first vaccines in the country to prevent a variety of animal-borne diseases. Bilal Golemi is a martyr of science. He returned his body to the laboratory to study and observe what it has, even risking his life. The establishment and organization of the veterinary service, the establishment of the first veterinary bacteriological laboratory are connected with his name and work. Dr. Bilal Golemi was positioned alongside the progressive democratic forces and participates in the Vlora movement that was directed against the regime of King Zog I. For this, the monarchist regime imprisoned him in 1932 and sentenced him to 101 years in prison. Under the pressure of protests in the country and abroad, he was released from prison on February 13, 1935, but the World-sized scientist was denied the right to work and live in Albania. He leaves for Turkey, welcomed by scientific institutions. As a result of his work, he was appointed an expert of the World Health Organization and was decorated by the French Government with the Knight Order of the Legion of Honor. He passed away on March 15, 1955 in Istanbul.

-On February 9, 1908, Fan Noli undertook the mission to establish the Albanian Orthodox Church in the US.

-On February 9, 1999, despite the talks that were taking place, in Rambouillet, the Serbian forces had undertaken a military campaign in the region of Peja and separately in the Rugova Gorge, where the 136th brigade, Rugova and the Dukagjin Operative Zone of the KLA was operating. Military reinforcements were observed in the region of Shtimje, where the bodies of the 45 Albanians massacred by the Serbs were buried in the following days.

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