On February 7, 1846, the Abbot Preng Doçi was born in Bulgri in the valley of River Fan in Mirdita. At the age of 14, he entered the Pontifical Seminary of Shkodër, where he stayed for five years. He then attended the Urban College of Rome for higher theological studies. Eleven years of his life were spent in seclusion, persecuted and imprisoned by the Ottoman rule. He returned to his homeland on November 6, 1888, as Abbot of Mirdita.

Abbot Prend Doçi, besides being an outstanding diplomat, was also respected as a poet and writer. He has published about 32 works. The Abbot passed away on February 22, 1917.

On February 7, 1971- A miniature Albanian flag with the double-headed eagle was held as a symbol by the astronaut of Albanian origin Alan Shepard, during the flight to the moon of the “Apollo 14” spacecraft. Shepard took this flag with him during the space journey proving his Albanian origin. The fact is evidenced by a square sheet of cardboard where the Albanian flag is attached next to a color photograph of the “Apollo 14” spacecraft, taken on the surface of the Moon. This document is located in the archives of the National History Museum in Tirana.

On February 7, 1993, the pediatrician Hamdi Sulçebe passed away. He was born in Elbasan on December 15, 1907. He studied in Graz, Austria and at the Faculty of Medicine in Vienna. In 1933 he returned to Albania and started working in the Civil Hospital of Tirana in surgery. After the liberation, he directed the Children’s Health Care Veter in Tirana and Korça. For many years, he worked as a lecturer at the School of Nursing in Tirana and at the Faculty of Medicine. He passed away in Tirana at the age of 86.

On February 7, 2006, the well-known painter Ibrahim Kodra passed away at the age of 88, in a hospital in Milan, Italy. Ibrahim Kodra was born in 1918, in Ishëm, Durrës. He studied at the Academy of Brera, Italy from where he began the journey of a contemporary artist. In 1944 he opened his first studio in Milan, while in 1947 he was recognized in contemporary artistic circles as the young painter in the world. He is the winner of several national and international awards. Visual art researchers claim that about 6,000 works bear his signature in his artistic creativity. Kodra is known as the “Primitive of the New Civilization”. He was buried according to his will in his birthplace.

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