-The Great Powers, with a collective note, sent to Istanbul on August 3, 1880, inviting the Porte to break the resistance of the Albanians and hand over Ulqin to Montenegro, an effort which the Porte failed to accomplish due to Albanian Resistance.

-Filip Shiroka was born on August 3, 1859, known in Albanian literature as the ‘Poet of the Swallow’. In 1877, his bookbinding shop became a rallying point for Shkodër patriotic circles. After three years, in 1880, due to the difficult circumstances of the time, the shop was closed and Filip Shiroka exiled to Egypt and Lebanon, assisted by another great patriot, Pashko Vasa. In 1887, he started publishing under the nickname Gegë Postripa. He passed away in 1935 in Beirut, Lebanon. Some of his most performed lyrics are “Sho Dallndyshë” /Travel you swallow/, “Vjershatorit” /To the Poet/, “Frati i vogël” /The young friar/ and “Tomb of Skanderbeg”.

-On August 3, 1912, the artist Pjetër Gjoka was born in Ulqin. He started his activity in the theater in the amateur movement in the 1930s in Shkodër. He performed about 90 roles in this theater, dozens of leading roles from world dramaturgy, while he stayed on stage for 52 consecutive years, performing even completely blind. He has also performed in several feature movies, creating accomplished characters. His last role at the National Theater was in the drama “Epoch before the trial” of Ekrem Kryeziu. In addition to working as an actor, he has also staged some plays as a director. He passed away on May 2, 1982.

-The Educational Congress of Tirana, which lasted until August 3, 1922, which formalized key decisions for the democratization of the school, and its secularization; three-year vocational school, six-year high schooling and the role of scientific subjects was defined. These decisions were passed at the initiative of Rexhep Mitrovica, Minister of Education in the government cabinet of the time.

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