-On January 19, 1878, the Montenegrin armies occupied Ulqin and a week later they came to the shores of Lake Shkodër and the banks of River Buna. These attacks followed the panic that gripped the Ottoman Empire during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877, when the situation at the front was reversed and the Russian army advanced to the very outskirts of Istanbul.

-On January 19, 1900, the patriot and writer Skënder Luarasi was born in Luaras near Kolonja. He studied at “Robert College” in Istanbul and then in the US and Austria. He worked as a teacher, editor, translator and lecturer in the Faculty of History and Philology. Some of his works are “Dawn of freedom”, “Colonel Thompson” and the comedy “April 7”. He has also translated the works from Shakespear “King Lear”, “Richard III”, “The Merchant of Venice”, the poem “Child Harold” from George Byron, etc. Skënder Luarasi passed away in Tirana on May 27, 1982.

-On January 19, 1923, the representative of the Greek government in Lausanne, Kalamanos, declared that his government had no intention of exchanging Muslims of Albanian origin, as part of the Lausanne Agreement, which provided that Muslim Turks living in Greece would be exchanged with Greeks in Anatolia. But this statement was flagrantly violated.

-On January 19, 1999, the Council of Europe passed the “Measures for the advancement and guarantee of pluralism and diversity in the media”. It recommended the creation of a public broadcasting service, to ensure that the information needs of different categories of society are met in a suitable way.

-On January 19, 2002, at the initiative and work of the Albanian Community of Quebec, the Mother Theresa Albanian School was founded in Montreal, Canada.

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