On April 8, 1900, was born in Prizren, Krist Maloku, Albanian scholar, one of the sharpest thinkers of the 1930s. He was a professor of Albanian and Balkans Literature in  the Commercial Academy of Graz. In 1966, the Austrian government granted him the title of Chief Education Advisor. He died in November 1973 in Graz, Austria.

On April 8, 1929, Gjon Sinishta, dissident clergyman and writer, was born in Podgorica. When the communists came to power, Gjon Sinishta was arrested and imprisoned for several years. Released from prison after an amnesty, Sinishta left for Austria, and then Italy, to finally settle during the early 1960s in Detroit, US, where he passed away. The Sinishta’s final with that his remains rest in his homeland was fulfilled in 1997.

On April 8, 1931, the agreement was decreed by Zog I for the establishment of a college in Albania, namely “The Albanian-American College”.

On April 8, 1999, after a week of program interruption, Radio Kosova e Lirë /Free Kosova/ resumed broadcasting in a bunker built on the top of Mount Pallanik, in the village of Berishë, between the villages of Kizharekë and Nekoc. The broadcast had been interrupted on objective reasons, until the bunker was secured to withstand the attacks of the enemy forces from the ground and from the air. From April 8 to June 21, 1999, when broadcasting in the KLA war zones ended, Radio Kosova e Lirë did not stop broadcasting for a single day, even though it was targeted by Serbian enemy artillery on a daily basis.

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