On July 19, 1900, the Franciscan priest Çiprian Nika was born in Shkoder. He graduated in Austria for Philosophy and Theology. He was ordained a priest in Rome. He was one of the leaders of the Franciscan province, as well as a close collaborator of the magazine “Hylli i Drita” mainly for philosophical problems. He passed away on March 11, 1948.

On July 19, 1929, actor Ilia Shyti was born in Lushnje. He started his career as an actor and director in his hometown, while in 1954 he moved to the “New Albania” Kinostudio. Four years later, in 1958, he would act in the first short film “Tana”. Ilia Shyti created 45 characters, already in the memory of the Albanian art lovers. He passed away on November 26, 2003.

Fatos Arapi was born on July 19, 1930. He was an Albanian poet, novelist, translator and journalist. Arapi’s writings have been greatly appreciated by his readers and contemporaries, for which he has received various national and international awards.

In 1962 and 1966 he published the volumes “Poetic Paths” and “Poems and Poems”. Criticized in 1973 for the volume Drama of an unnamed partisan, it remained almost silent for a long time until 1989. In 2008, he won the “Golden Crown” in the poetic manifestation Evenings of Struga poetry and he is the first Albanian poet to have won this award.

On July 19, 1967, Padër Pjetër Meshkalla was arrested. The District Court of Shkodra sentenced him to 10 (ten) years of imprisonment, with the maximum measure.

On July 19, 1991, the Assembly approved the “Land” law. This law transferred all properties of agricultural cooperatives to private ownership.

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