-The Senate of Venice, convened on August 16, 1466, instructed its representatives in Albania to urge Skanderbeg to attack Elbasan and after defeating the Ottomans, to destroy the castle.

 -On August 16, 1920, “Agimi” /The Dawn/ Sports Society was founded. In 1927, it took the name “Sport Klub Tirana”. Tirana won its first football championship title in the first Albanian football championship on April 6, 1930.

-On August 16, 1925, Ahmet Zogu amnestied the return to their homeland of 60 political personalities who escaped from Albania after the failure of the June Revolution of 1924.

-On August 16, 1942, Misto Mame, Hero of the People, of the Albanian Resistance during WWII, was killed in Tirana. He was born in Erind, Gjirokastër in 1921. He took an active part in the actions of the guerrilla units of Tirana, being its commander.

 -On August 16, 1989, Mother Teresa came to Tirana for a private visit, to come back officially in on December 1990, March 1991 and August 1992.

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