On July 26, 1919, took place the ceremony for the election of Fan Noli as the Orthodox bishop.

On July 26, 1930, Monsignor Gjergj Volaj, 25 years old, was ordained a priest by Monsignor Lazër Mjeda. The clergyman Gjergj Volaj, distinguished for his oratory skills, and with the step of a missionary on the slopes of the mountains, won the admiration of believers and the appreciation of the church hierarchy too.

On July 26, 1943, during the WWII Albanian Resistance, the Delegation of the General National Liberation Council gathered at the house of Ihsan Toptani in Tapiza, Tirana. The delegates decided to form a joint war committee named “Committee of the Rescue of Albania”.

On July 26, 2007, actress Violeta Manushi passed away. She was born on March 6, 1926. When she was 20 years old, she enrolled in the first drama school, opened by the State Theater, today the National Theatre. She has played more than 100 roles in the theater and 16 in the cinema from “Tana” to “Rrethimi i vogel” /The little siege/. In the drama “Kremlin Hours” she played 3 roles, thus breaking an original record still in force. With the role of Aunt Ollga in “The Lady from the City” she won the medal of the Film Festival in 1977. In May 2004 she successfully returned to the stage of the National Theater with the tragicomedy “Shelter of the Forgotten”.

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