On April 30, 1910, the Ottoman army, led by Shefqet Turgut Pasha, began an attack against 4,000 Albanian insurgents led by Idriz Seferi in the gorge of Kaçanik.

On April 30, 1923, Dr. Prof. Dhimitër Pilika was born in Korça. He was a researcher of Albanian history and language who published 64 volumes with content from Albanian culture. It has discovered 21 documents that prove the presence of Albanians in the Balkans in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Prof. Dhimitër Pilika has been honored with two gold medals and the title of “Doctor of History and Albanian Language” from the University of Prague, where he stayed for 15 years. Upon returning to Albania, during the communist dictatorship regime, he was exiled to the villages of Lushnja. Pilika passed away alone on December 31, 2003.

On April 30, 1984, Besnik Sykja, the Albanian scientist who gained respect in the world, passed away. He completed his studies in physics – in Uppsala, Sweden, at the Institute of Quantum Chemistry. He died suddenly at the age of 36 suffering from an incurable disease.

On April 30, 1991, with the election of the first president of the Parliamentary Republic by a multi-party Parliament, the Constitutional Institution of the President of the Republic was founded in Albania.

April 30, 1997, from the explosion of explosives in an army warehouse in Qafë-Shtamë of Mat, 22 people lost their lives.

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