On October 18, 1861, Gjerasim Qiriazi, a well-known teacher and publicist, was born in Bitola. Together with her sisters, she opened the first Albanian school for girls in Korçë. Formed and led the patriotic society “Vellazria”, she was persecuted by the Ottoman invaders for this patriotic activity.

On October 18, 1882, Bektashi cleric Ali Riza Dede was born in Kruja. For 10 years he served in the tekke of Kruja, becoming an authority of the Bektashi there. In 1920 he went to Elbasan. After the death of the Bektashi World Grandfather, Sali Njazi Dede was proposed by the Grandfather Council of the Bektashi, on December 9, 1941, as Grandfather, a task he performed until his death in 1944.

On October 18, 1925, Ramiz Alia, the last communist leader in Albania, was born in Shkodër. After the first multiparty elections on March 31, 1991, the new pluralist assembly dominated by Labor Party deputies elected him President of the Republic. With the victory of the opposition coalition on March 22, 1992, Alia resigned from the post of President. On October 7, 2011, he died in the Tirana. With his death, an era closes, as the last communist president and the first pluralist one.

On October 18, 1996, the Children’s Village, SOS, was inaugurated in Tirana.

On October 18, 1997, the September of Mother Teresa, sponsored by the Albanian-American brothers, Gjocaj, residing in New York, came down to Tuz, at the mass given in the Church of Saint Ndou. This precious gift was placed on July 2, 2002, on the anniversary of the Constitution in Prishtina, next to the statue of the National Hero, Scanderbeg.

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