On June 27, 1915, amid the WWI, after completely conquering northern Albania, Montenegro also conquers Shkodër. Britain and Italy protested.

On June 27, 1917 the Honor of the Nation, People’s Artist, Prenk Jakova was born in Shkodër. In 1945, he established himself as a composer throughout Albania, with the staging, on November 28, 1945, of the melodrama “Judas Makabe” based on the work with the same title by Friar Gjergj Fishta. At the end of 1947, he was arrested and kept in prison for a year, after which he returned to his musical activity. He is the Cornerstone of Albanian Opera Art. In the last years of his life, he successfully led the Shkodra amateur troupe. Prenk Jakova passed away on September 16, 1969.

The semi-finals of the 10th National Football Championship that took place in Tirana on June 26 and 27, 1942, constitute a unique, extraordinary, historic event in the history of Albanian sports. They are the crowning achievement of a rare sporting union between ethnic Albanians.

On June 27, 1942, the Albanian actor and director Andon Qesari was born in the village of Qeparo in Vlora. Initially an actor in the professional theater of Vlora, then a lecturer at the High Institute of Arts, today the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1975, he resumed his artistic activity as an actor, in the National Theatre. He has played many roles, in several feature movies too. Qesari was also successful as a director at the plays “Carnivals of Korça”, “Pallati 176” /Residence 176/, “Under the lights of the scene”, “In life”, and “Waltz of the Titanic”.

June 27, 1944 is the day of the genocide against the Albanians of Çameria. From June 27, 1944 to March 1945, monarcho-fascist Greek forces of the “Greek Nationalist” army of Napoleon Zerva carried out a monstrous massacre of the Çam population in Greece, where they tortured and then killed more than 800 men, slaughtered men and women. This massacre was followed by two more one in July and August of that year, with very tragic consequences. June 27 is turned into a day of remembrance of the beloved and protest in the name of denied houses and properties.

On June 27, 2007, Alfons Gurashi, the career journalist and speaker on the screen of Albanian Television, passed away at the age of 65 due to a heart attack. He started his work around the 1960s at Radio Tirana and only a few years later, he became one of the most popular journalists of the public television. Alfons Gurashi is remembered as one of the icons of Albanian Radio and Television. More than 30 years of work in RTSH with chronicles, interviews, reports from every corner of Albania.