On July 10, 1703 in Merkinja in Lezha, by order of Pope Clement XI (Albany), the Council of Arber was held; There, the decision was made to open Albanian schools and to publish texts in the Albanian language. The acts of the Council of Arber were published in Albanian in 1706.

On July 10, 1821, the arbëresh researcher Engjell Mashi died. He was born in the Arberesh villages of Italy in 1758. He headed the College of Saint Adrian. It dealt with the study of the history of Albanian popular culture.

On July 10, 1927, at the age of 32, in miserable conditions, the Albanian heroine Shote Galica closed her eyes. Her burial in Fushë-Krujë was not done in silence. They had come from all over Albania to escort her to our last resting place. In 1962, the Albanian State raised her tombstone in Fushë-Kruja, honoring her with the high title HEROINE OF THE PEOPLE.

On July 10, 1952, the government of Tirana repeated the request for admission to the UN, but the Western position was against it. The reason was that in Albania “fundamental human rights and basic individual freedoms were not observed”.

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