-Sulejman Vokshi sent a telegram from Skopje to the Ottoman government in Istanbul on January 3, 1881. He warned of an armed uprising if the Ottoman army did not give up on threats. The Porte immediately ordered its commander in Skopje to avoid provocations.

-On January 3, 1913, through a memorandum, immediately after Albania’s Declaration of Independence, Kingdom of Greece requested that the border line with Albania start in the north of Himara and continue, east of Këlcyra, in Mount Panarit in Kolonja, and up to the western shore of Lake Ohrid. Request of Athens was rejected by the West Powers.

-Hasan Riza Pasha, who wanted to save Shkodër by fighting against the Montenegrin army under the Albanian flag, was murdered on January 3, 1913.

-On January 3, 2003, the political leaders of the Albanians in the Presheva Valley asked the young Albanians of this region not to respond to the call of the Serbian Ministry of Defense to perform military service.

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