-On February 5, 1822, Ali Pasha Tepelena was murdered in the monastery of Saint Pandelemon, on the island of the lake of Ioannina. He was born in Tepelena into a family of military feudal lords and quickly distinguished himself for his abilities and the energy with which he pursued his ambitious plans to become the sole ruler of the country using violence, cunning, as much as connections. Ali Pasha Tepelena’s policy aimed at the autonomy and unification of the Albanian provinces under the rule of the Pachalik of Ioannina, and his open war against the Porte, helped to prepare the ground for a new and higher stage of the anti-Ottoman liberation movement.

-On February 5, 1887, Omer Nishani, a patriot and statesman, was born in Gjirokastër. He completed his medical studies in Istanbul. His life activity was to the benefit of the Albanian national issue, with a nationalist, democratic tendency and in an effort for a civilized and developed Albania, according to the western democracy. He was an active part of the democratic-bourgeois revolution of 1924, under the leadership of Fan S Noli, after whose overthrow, he left Tirana and settled in Vienna, where he was associated with the international revolutionary movement.

-After the liberation, Omer Nishani was elected Minister of Foreign Affairs and on January 12, 1946, he was elected President of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly, a position he held until 1953. He found dead in his villa, under suspicious circumstances and on May 27, 1954 was briefly announced that the 67-year-old passed away”after a serious illness”.

-On February 5, 1936, the dancer, master of the Albanian folk dance, Besim Zekthi, was born in Tirana. In 1952, he was presented at the State Philharmonic. With the creation of the Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances in 1957, Besim Zekthi became a part of the Ensemble from its creation, giving life to Albanian dance. The incomparable soloist of the Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances, Besim Zekthi, excelled in the well-known dances “Dance of the Eagles”, “Albania is celebrating “, and was one of the main protagonists who gave the Golden Cordon to Albania, at the Dijon Festival in France in 1970.

-On February 5, 1941, Ferdinand Deda, composer, conductor, was born in Peqin. After finishing the artistic high school in Tirana in 1960, he studied music conducting at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After a year, he was forced to stop his studies and continue them in 1962 at the Tirana Conservatory. Since he was a student he led the RTSH orchestra and after his studies he was appointed to this orchestra. Since 1964, he has performed over 300 concerts at in the country and abroad. With the symphony orchestra of RTSH, he has also composed the music for many movie sound tracks. Ferdinand Deda was the founder of the Spring Concerts at RTSH. Prize-winning, in 1997 he was declared the winner of the “Golden Disc” and awarded also with the title “Merited Artist” and “Great Master”. Ferdinand Deda passed away at the age of 62.

-On February 5, 1931, Mihal Grameno passed away, an active activist of the patriotic democratic movement for the independence of Albania. Hero of the People, Mihal Grameno was born in Korça in 1871. He fought in the ranks of the Çerçiz Topulli detachment and participated in the Congress of Alphabet in Manastir in 1908. Grameno also became known as a publicist, playwright, and novelist too.

-On February 5, 1993, President Ibrahim Rugova requested that the Kosova issue be moved from the Geneva Conference to the UN Security Council. He believed that the Security Council could prevent the conflict and could find a political solution for the Kosova issue”. Six years later, on February 5, 1999, the document of the Contact Group for the Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosova was drawn up in Ramboullet, France.

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