The distinguished Austrian Albanologist, professor of the University of Graz, author of the first etymological dictionary of Albanian, Gustav Meyer, was born on November 25, 1850.

On November 25, 1909, the insurgents of Northern Albania presented to the Young Turk government the demands to recognize the national rights of the Albanians. The demands were published in the Korça and Bashkimi i Kombit /The National Union/ newspapers.

On November 25, 1913, Petro Marko, “Honour of the Nation”, was born in Dhërmi. He started writing and publishing at a very young age. In 1936, he volunteered in the Spanish civil war. He returned to his homeland after four years, but in 1941, during the fascist occupation, he was arrested and then exiled to the island of Ustica in Italy. He returned to Albania in 1944. In 1947 he was arrested and imprisoned on political charges. He passed away in Tirana on December 27, 1991.

Kolë Jakova, playwright, poet and novelist, was born on November 25, 1915. He attended primary and secondary school, and the Franciscan school, in Shkodër. He has been involved in literary creativity since 1935, publishing his first poem in the magazine. Among his works are “Halili and Hajria”, “The Heroes of Vig”, the drama “Our Land”.

On November 25, 1912, the city of Elbasan was liberated, the first Albanian city to raise the Albanian flag and declare independence.

In the city of Gjirokastër, on November 25, 1925, the first issue of the newspaper “Demokracia” was published.

On November 25, 1938, the first experimental tests for radio transmissions were made. On the occasion of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, radio shows were broadcast for three successive days. The cycle of shows was opened by the speech of King Zog I.

On November 25, 1944, before all of Albania was liberated during the WWII, 138 teachers gathered at the Congress of Anti-Fascist Teachers of Albania in the city of Korça. The decisions taken, laid the organizational foundations that determined the development paths of education in the years that followed.

On November 25, 1945, violinist Ibrahim Madhi, “People’s Artist” was born. He was one of the most important figures of Albanian music and performing arts, a brilliant soloist, at the same time a perfect leader of chamber music groups and string orchestras, and also appreciated for the valuable contribution to the formation of the national school of musical interpretation. Ibrahim Madhi, the virtuoso violinist, passed away on February 14, 2014

On November 25, 1972, ended the Albanian Orthography Congress, a nationwide scientific meeting, which established the unified orthography of the Albanian language for the entire Albanian Nation.

On November 25, 2004, Gentian Zef Marku, a US private of Albanian origins, fell heroically in Iraq. The US President Bush honored him posthumously with a bravery medal, while in Albania he was awarded the Golden Eagle Medal.

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