On May 14, 1450, the known as ‘the first Siege of Kruja’ by the Ottoman army began. The castle was protected by the garrison commanded by Count Uran, while George Kastrioti Skanderbeg had resolved to stay and fight outside the castle with the main Albanian army, forcing the Ottoman army to withdraw after five months.

On May 14, 1880, in Prizren, the Albanians undertook an uprising, overthrowing the Turkish governors, and the “Albanian Movement” declared the autonomy of the province. Prizren’s movement for autonomy also spread to Peja and Gjakova.

On May 14, 1921, Haxhi Hafiz Sabri Koçi, former head of the Albanian Muslim Community, was born in Orenja in Librazhd. He served as imam in Shkodër, Kruja and Kavaja. In 1966 he was arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison. The Muslim clergyman helped to revive and spread the faith banned by the communist regime. Sabri Koçi was elected head of the Muslim Committee of Albania in 1991 and led it until he passed away on June 19, 2004.

On May 14 to 17, 1997, the Albanian press exhibition of the 90s was opened at the National Library. For the first time, newspapers and magazines published in Albania, Kosova, North-Macedonia and the diaspora were exhibited.

On May 14, 1997, the Assembly of Albania passed the Law “On Public and Private Radio and Television in the Republic of Albania”, which paved the way to the development of electronic mass media in our country.

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