On February 15, 1602, the Great Assembly of Dukagjin was held. The Assembly of Dukagjin elected the lords, bishops of Sapa and Sardenja, Pal Dukagjin, who formally presented Venice with a request for assistance to support them in the war against the Turks.

On February 15, 1909 – In Boston, the first issue of the newspaper Dielli was published, the oldest Albanian newspaper still in existence. Dielli was originally the organ of the society Besa-Besë in Massachusetts. With the establishment of the Pan-Albanian Federation of America Vatra on June 10, 1912, the newspaper Dielli passed into the ownership of the Federation Vatra, and today it is published twice a week.

On February 15, 1912, after a long resistance, Ottoman forces surrendered in Vlorë to the forces of Ismail Qemali, marking a significant step towards Albania’s independence.

On February 15, 1946 – Maliq Bushati (66 years old)was executed by a firing squad at the so-called Prifti Hill, near Tirana, his body buried in an unmarked grave. Bushati was treacherously captured by the communists in 1945 in Shkodër where he was hiding. One day earlier, on February 14, 1946, Maliq was sentenced to death by a special court, along with Lef Nosi and Anton Harapi, on charges of collaboration with the occupier. Maliq Bushati came from the well-known Bushatli family of Shkodra. A prominent participant in the national movement, during the 1920s and 1930s, he had been a deputy in parliament in the opposition group. Hatred towards King Zog led Bushati in April 1939 to express support for the Italian occupation, and he later served as Minister of Interior in the government of Shefqet Vërlaci (another opponent of Zogu).

On February 15, the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visited Tirana for the first time, thus becoming the 6th American Secretary of State to officially visit our country.

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