On April 3, 1880, the Defense League of the Highlands and the City was founded in Shkodër. It was chaired by a Committee with 12 Muslim and Christian members, headed by Hodo Sokoli.

On April 3, 1914, the democrat patriot Mentor Çoku was born in Elbasan. He founded “The Society of filial piety for the rights of Albanians”. He found himself at the head of the nationalist forces in Ohër and Struga. With the arrival of the communist regime, he realized that resistance to it would be impossible. This became the reason for his exile in Italy. He returned to his homeland after the 1990s. Mentor Çoku passed away on April 18, 1996 at his home in Rome.

On April 3, 1933, Fitnete Rexha “Merited Artist”, one of the most prominent singers of the folk music of central Albania, was born in Tirana. Fitneta Rexha has recorded about 200 folk songs of Central Albania, the value of the phono archive of Radio-Tirana. She died in Tirana on August 14, 2003.

On April 3, 1947, the actress of the National Theater, Drita Haxhiraj, was born in Tirana. For 25 consecutive years, she performed over 50 roles in her career in TK and 11 roles in feature films. She was honored with the title “Merited Artist”.

April 3, 2008 Albania received the membership invitation to NATO. A year later, Albania became part of the North Atlantic Alliance as a member with full rights.

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