On August 14, 1448, Skanderbeg won a victory in Oranik of Upper Dibra, against the Ottoman army under the command of Mustafa Pasha.

On August 14, 1464, “Pope Pius II”, the inspirer and organizer of the European crusade against the Ottoman invaders, passed away in Ancona. In all anti-Ottoman projects, a central place is given to the Albanian army, which would have joined the European army, to form the central front with Skanderbeg as the commander-in-chief of the crusade. With his death, efforts to organize an anti-Ottoman crusade on a European scale died too.

On August 14, 1912, 400 volunteers left Milot to liberate Durrës and raise the flag of |Independence there.

On August 14, 1914, novelist Sterjo Spasse was born in Gllomboç, of Prespa. After completing the Elbasan Normal School, he worked as a teacher. His creativity dates back to the 1930s. The beginnings also belong to the novel known to the Albanian reader “Pse” /Why/. He passed away in Tirana on September 13, 1989.

On August 14, 1916, the lyric poet Gasper Pali was born in Shkodër. He studied literature in Florence. He first worked as a teacher. At the end of the 1930s, he started his literary creativity, mainly poetry. He passed away in Shkodër on July 21, 1942.

On August 14, 1935, the most powerful movement against King Zog I regime broke out in the city of Fier. The suppression of the Fier uprising was followed by a political trial where 42 people were sentenced to death.

On August 14, 1941, Luan Starova, writer and diplomat, was born in Pogradec. Author of several literary and essay works, winner of several international awards. After Ismail Kadarese, he is the most translated Albanian writer in the world.

On August 14, 1954, the footballer Shyqyri Ballgjini was born in Durrës. For 18 years, he turned into one of the best football players of the Albanian championship, playing with Dinamo of Tirana. He ended his football career in Durres with his city’s team Lokomotiva.

On August 14, 1971, the construction of the road to the Fierza Hydropower Plant was completed. 17,000 volunteers from all over the country contributed in it.

On August 14, 2003, Fitnete Rexha passed away in Tirana. She was a “Merited Artist”, a well-known singer of folk music of central Albania. She was born in Tirana on April 3, 1933. Around the age of 15, she sang and recorded her first folk songs in the company of the orchestra group of Central Albania directed by Muharrem Gura and Skënder Reka. First, she was a singer in the Tirana Variety Theater and then with the Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances. She has recorded about 200 folk songs of Central Albania, a value of the musical archive of Radio Tirana.

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