On July 16, 1880, from Tuz (presentday Montenegro), the leaders of Hot expressed their determination to repulse the Montenegrin attacks and to win the independence of Albania, although the Great Powers did not provide any help.

On July 16, 1925, during the period of president later to become King Zog I, Shën Naum became part of the (what was Jugoslavia) in the North-Macedonian border, by unspecified motives of exchange or gifts between the two governments of that time. Shën Naum was part of the Albania when the decision of the London Conference, in 1913, officially decided Albania’s borders at Lake Ohrid will be from the western shore of the lake from the village of Lin and the diagonal of the border included the monastery of Shën Naum inside Albanian borders.

On July 16, 1943, Reshit Çollaku, Hero of the People, fighter of the WWII Albanian Resistance, was killed. He was born in Pogradec in 1914. He was a student in the last year of the Italian Military Academy, when Italy invaded Albania in 1939. In March 1942, he was appointed commander of the Mokra detachment and later of the Mokra partisan battalion. Organized and led many important battles from Plloça to Librazhd, from Gora to Vërç, from the chrome yards in Rrajca to Struga. He fell while fighting against the Italian fascists in Pojska of Pogradec.

On July 16, 1944, a Nazi massacre took place in Nivica and Shën Vasil. The consequences were tragic: 86 people killed (31 people were shot and buried in a common grave), 90 exiled.

On July 16, 1966, the well-known actor Loro Kovaçi passed away. He was born on August 30, 1903 in Shkodër. He started his theatrical activity since 1920. After a long experience in the amateur theater, on September 1, 1946, together with Pjetër Gjoka and others, he joined the Army Theater. On September 1, 1947, he joined the People’s Theater as a professional actor. His first role was in the comedy “The Prefect”. The last role on the stage of the National Theater was the role of the Italian colonel in the drama “Three Shots”. He received the title “People’s Artist”. He has participated in several Albanian feature movies, starting with movie “Skanderbeg”.

On July 16, 1997 – In Gostivar, North Macedonia, the protests of the Albanian population took place after the arrest of the mayor of this city, Rufi Osmani, who raised the Albanian flag in the City Hall building.

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