On June 22, 1869, the Association of Austrian Architects and Engineers inaugurated in Semmering, Austria, the monument dedicated to the designer and builder of the most famous mountainous railway in the world, the Albanian architect Karl Gega.

On June 22, 1926, the National Theater was established. It was the initiative of: the mechanical engineer Xhuf Koliaka, graduated in Malta, the industrialist educated in Athens, Alqi or Nikolla Jani Hobdari, and the MP Ferid Vokopola. They had founded in 1925 the first cinematographic company in Albania.

On June 22, 1942, Perlat Rexhepi, Hero of the People, of the Albanian WWIi Resistance, was killed. He fell in the fierce fighting that he fought together with Branko Kadina and Jordan Misja in a neighborhood of Shkodër, in front of 600 militiamen and carabinieri.

On June 22, 1991, the American Secretary of State visited Albania, James Becker. It was a historic visit, which would also mark Albania’s turning point.

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