On April 29, 1960, the first televised program in RTSH (Albanian Radio Television) was broadcast. The equipment that came from Germany was placed on Kont Urani Street. The announcer Stoli Beli presented the program at 10:00 in front of a camera that was the only one in the television studio. Its founders are Petro Kito, former director of Radio Tirana and Fuat Bozgo, head of the Radio Culture Editorial Office.

On April 29, 1966, the Electric Wire and Cable Plant was inaugurated in Shkodër.

On April 29, 1967, Friar Pjetër Meshkalla, torchbearer of democracy, was arrested. At the age of 30, he was ordained a priest in Shkodër. In 1945, he was asked to cooperate with the communist regime of Tirana. He not only does not accept it, but at the funeral of Monsignor Bumçi, he openly exposes the communist dictatorship. Taking into account this act, in 1946, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison, in labor camps, and latte in Burrel political prison. Friar Pjetër Meshkalla is the first clergyman who was decorated in 1992 witht the medal “Torch of Democracy.”

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