The patriotic musician Spiridon Ilo was born in Korça on September 30, 1876. He studied music in the United States of America. He is the first Albanian who set up a company for the production of gramophone records and recorded many patriotic Albanian folk songs.

In Saint Louis, United States of America, on September 30, 1916, the first issue of the weekly “Albanian Defense” was published in Albanian and partly in English. It was published by the patriot emigrant Theodhor Harito.

In Geneva, on September 30, 1921, the International Convention for the Prohibition of the Sale of Women and Children was concluded. Albania acceded to this important act of international law in October 1924.

The scenographer of the National Theater Shaban Hysa was born on September 30, 1938 in Tirana. He completed his secondary studies at the artistic high school “Jordan Misja”. He studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated as a set painter. In 1961, Hysa, ‘Merited Artist’ was appointed scenographer at the National Theater and then at TOB. Since 1967, he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Arts. After 1978, he worked as a scenographer in the National Theater, until he passed away on August 27, 2005.

The first congress of Albanian trade unions took place in Tirana on September 28-30, 1945. This was the first large gathering of Albanian workers and craftsmen.

On September 30, 1998, Law No. 8410 on Public and Private Radio and Television in the Republic of Albania was passed.

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