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Calendar – March the 18th

-On March 18, 1908, the Maskullora War took place, one of the most important and brilliant battles of the Çerçiz Topulli’s detachment against the Ottoman forces. Although besieged, only HajredinTremishti was killed in battle, while the Ottoman forces suffered over 20 casualties.

-On March 18, 1910, in the “Dielli” /The Sun/ newspaper, under the title “The oldest known Albanian letter”, Pal Skiroi announced Urbi et Orbi, as Pjeter Budi’s “Pasqyra e t’Rrefyemit” /The Mirror of the Confessor/ was the leading book of Albanians.

-On March 18, 1915, Gjon Karma was born in Shkodër. He started his artistic activity in 1932 in Shkodër with the company “Bogdani”. In 1945, he became an actor at the People’s Theater where he performed over 80 roles. He has been described as “the great actor of small roles”. The owner of “Merited Artist” title passed away in Tirana on January 13, 1994, at the age of 79.

-On March 18, 1923, the “Paganini of Bjeshkët e Namuna” /Damned Mountains/, the prominent Albanian musician, Rexho Mulliqi was born. He passed away on February 11, 1982.

-On March 18, 1948, Vilson Blloshmi was born in the village of Bërzeshta. He was the translator of the books of known writers known as Hygo, Camy, Baudelaire, and Sartre. When he was at the height of his creativity, he was targeted by the communist State Security and arrested in 1976, under the charge of agitation and propaganda against the regime. He was sentenced to death and shot on July 17, 1977, in Mali i Zgarës.

-On March 18, 1999, The Kosovan delegation representatives signed in Paris the Rambouillet Agreement, which meant autonomy for Kosova within Yugoslavia.

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