At the beginning of April 1463, a 10-year peace with the Ottoman Turks ended, which was broken in November of the same year with the attacks undertaken by Skanderbeg, after being pushed by the Pope Pius II and Venice, in the frame of a crusade proclaimed by  Pius II to overthrow the Ottoman Turks from the Peninsula. Crusade failed due to the death of Pius II in Ancona, before taking sale to the Peninsula and the followed dissolve of the crusading armies.

On April 4, 1949 – The North Atlantic Treaty, which created a mutual defense alliance, was signed in Washington by the 12 participating western powers.

On April 4, 1957, Murat Haxhi Çami, a patriot cleric from the Çameria, passed away. He was among the initiators and ardent supporters of the opening of the Albanian Club in 1909, of the insurgent groups and of the patriotic movement. In 1916 he emigrated to the United States of America. There he collaborated with Albanian Society “Vatra” in Boston Mass. and the patriotic press of Albanian exiles.

On April 4, 1999 – The heads of American, Italian, British, German and French diplomacy agreed on the need to “deploy an international security force” in Kosovo to guarantee the return of Kosovars to their homes. That same day, the first NATO military troops arrived at Tirana airport, as well as a significant number of Italian helicopters, which were deployed in Albania to deal with the emergency influx of people from Kosova.

On April 4, 2000 – Albania signed the European protocol for the abolition of the death penalty in Strasbourg. Albania was the 40th member country of the European organization to officially commit to abolishing the death penalty.

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