On January 29, 1622, Pjetër Budi donated the original copy of his First Work “Doktrina e Krishten” /Christian Doctrine/ to the Vatican Library. The 28-page catechism is the second work written in Albanian.

On January 29, 1916, Lazër Radi was born in Prizren, in a family of patriots. As a result of the Serbian repression, he goes into exile in Albania. He studies in Italy, graduating with honors as a Doctor of Law. He worked as a lawyer until November 23, 1944, when he was arrested and sentenced in the Special Court, with thirty years of imprisonment. He returned to Tirana after an almost half-century long odyssey of inhumane persecution in 1990.

1994, publishes the documentary books “Mysteries of a Minister” and “Tale on Dines of Dibra”. Translates Freud, Jung, and “The Epic of Man” by the Ivanaj Brothers and “The Life and Customs of Albanians” by Mark Milan. In 1996, publishes the second book of poetry “Hope dies last” and the monograph “The Man of the Long Road”

Lazer Radi, passed away on the morning of September 23, 1998, the day of the publication of the book that was so dear to his heart “A summer with Migjeni”.

January 29, 1920 was the last day of Turhan Pasha’s Government of Durrës, which came into power on December 25, 1918.