On June 23, 1911, 17 months before Independence from the Ottoman conquest, the Assembly of Albanian insurgents approved the Memorandum of Gërça. Under the chairmanship of Ismail Qemali, the participants in the assembly demanded to the Porte the autonomy of Albania and recognition of Albanian as the official language in the four vilayets.

On June 23, 1914, the Albanian government of Prince von Wied and the so-called “VorioEpiriote” government approved the “Protocol of Corfu”. Von Wied agreed on the separation of Northern and Central Albania from the Southern one, which was in flagrant conflict with the Organic Statute of Albania and openly violated the sovereignty of the Albanian state.

On June 23, 1944, under the urge of the Albanian community of Boston, Mass, the American government organized a meeting at the “Statler” Hotel, to discuss how to deal with Albania, after Noli’s proposals for the official condemnation of the invasion of Albania in 1939.

On June 23, 1960, FadilVokrri was born in the village of Sfeçël in Podujeva. He is known as the “Legend of Albanian football” and remains the most popular and adored football player in Kosova.

On June 23, 1961, the Law on the establishment of the Faculty of Law and Economics of Prishtina was approved, while this faculty started its work almost three months later on October 7, 1961.

On June 23, 1967, he died at the age of 76 in Durrës, prof. dr. Franz Babinger, German historian, who was also an Albanologist. He made valuable observations that were reflected in the works “Infiltration into the homeland of the Albanians”. He also wrote a fictional work on Skanderbeg.

On June 23, 2001, some clergymen were re-ordained by Monsignor Massafra in the Shiroka Parish. It turns out that the parish of Shiroka, was known many centuries ago. In the reports of Monsignor Pjetër Bogdani, from 1662 to 1670, Shiroka appears as the parish with Dom Anton Vladanji as a missionary.

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