On October 30, 1801 in the village of Vokopola of Berat, a letter in the Albanian language written by the doctor Jan Vellarai testifies to an alphabet in the south of Albania. It contained 30 letters based on Latin and Greek. The manuscript is kept in the National Library of Paris.

On October 30, 1912, during the 1-st Balkan War, the invasion operations of the Serbian-Montenegrin army started in the direction of the Dukagjin Plain.

On October 30, 1914, Italian armies landed in Sazan and occupied the strategic island.

On October 30, 1918, the Austrian army defeated during the First World War leaves the territory of Albania.

On October 30, 1925, the first issue of the newspaper “Sporti”, one of the first sports newspapers in Albania, was published in Shkodër.

Master of ballet, Agron Aliaj “People’s Artist” was born on October 30, 1933.

On October 30, 1937, the Directorate of Migration was established within the framework of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tirana.

On October 30, 1938, the National Bank building was inaugurated.

On October 30, 1944, a commission of the Cham Anti-Fascist Council was sent to Athens near the Greek government of Mr. Papandreou.

On October 30, 1957 in Tirana, the agreement for the regulation of issues arising from the peace treaty with Italy entered into force.

On October 30, 1991, the Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved the law granting the “Mother Teresa” order.

On October 30, 2005, the 1st Balkan Congress was held in Ohrid for the establishment of the Children’s Parliament of the region.

On October 30, 2017, the well-known director and playwright Mihal Luarasi, “Honour of the Nation”, “People’s Artist”, passed away at the age of 88. Mihal Luarasi was born on September 16, 1929 in Korça. He completed high school at the artistic high school “Jordan Misja” in Tirana, while his higher studies at the Academy of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest, Hungary.

In the theater for the first time as a director, he staged Schiller’s tragedy “Intrigue and Love” in 1957.

Mihal Luarasi is one of the three prominent directors of the brightest period of Albanian theater in the years 1957-1973: Luarasi – Spahivogli – Mani. In December 1990, he left for Hungary. During his stay in Hungary, he published a series of articles on theater in the Hungarian and Albanian press. In 2003, his book “National Theater at the Crossroads” was published, and two years later, the second book with writings on theater and other arts, “Memory that does not sleep”.

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