-On August 24, 1461, George Kastrioti  Skanderbeg, with an army of 3,000 men, left for Italy, to help his ally, King Ferdinad II of Naples from the insurgents who wanted to overthrow his throne in favor of the rival dynastical family of D’Anjoy.

-On August 24, 1913, the first issue of the newspaper of the independent Albanian state “Perlindja e Shqipnis” /Reneisance of Albania/ was published. It was published twice a week and numbered 21 issues until 1914. The newspaper became an echo of the government policy of Vlora headed by Ismail Qemali.

-On August 24, 1924, the patriot Riza Cerova fell heroically in Mokër. He was born in Çerova of Skrapar in 1896. He defended the works of the Congress of Lushnja and was among the main activists of the June Democratic Revolution of 1924.

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