January 31, 1913, was the day of the beginning of the joint attack of the forces of the Shkodër Garrison and the Albanian highlanders against the Montenegrin and Serbian troops that had surrounded the city.

On January 31, 1918, poet, comedian, Spiro Çomorra was born in Vuno. He graduated in Law in Greece. He worked for a long time in the magazine “Hosteni”. In his writings, the social problems of the time are mirrored. As a part of the creativity of Çomorra, there are translations into Albanian, especially of ancient Greek literature. Spiro Çomorra passed away at the age of 55 in Tirana in 1973.

On January 31, 1920, Ramazan Zyberi, the master of songs of Central Albania, was born in Tirana traditional family, particularly in the field of singing. He started his career in the Army Ensemble, being one of its founders, to continue then with the Folk Song Ensemble, in the Variety Show Theater of Tirana. Ramazan Zyberi has been awarded prizes and honorary titles. He passed away in Tirana at the age of 87 on January 8, 2008.

On January 31, 1924, the biweekly social and pedagogical magazine “Reforma” /The Reform/, media of the Teachers’ Association in Tirana, was published. It supported the development of national education and the implementation of bourgeois democratic freedoms.

On January 31, 2003, the official opening of negotiations for the Stabilization-Association Agreement took place in Tirana, with a special ceremony.

On January 31, 2016, academician Kristo Frashëri, “Honor of the Nation”, passed away at the age of 96 in Tirana. He was born on December 17, 1920 in Istanbul. Prof. Kristo Frashëri has a scientific production for a period of 70 years, with dozens of study articles, historical reports, documentary volumes and scientific monographs, which deal without exception with events, personalities and processes of the history of Albania.

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