In June 1795, Mahmut Pasha Bushatlliu, at the head of a large army, besieged and took Prizren. Dibra joined the Paschalek of Shkodra. But this lasted until the spring of the following year, when the Dibra feudals expelled Kara Mahmut Pasha and his nephew.

In June 1914, Vilhelm von Wied’s government approved the Corfu Protocol, which the International Control Commission concluded with the so-called Zografi government. According to this document, the southern provinces were granted some autonomy that included independent administration and the creation of a local gendarmerie.

On June 6, 1915, People’s Artist Pjeter Gjoka was born in Ulqin. Gjoka started his stage career in Shkodër in 1934. After the liberation, he worked as an actor in the People’s Theater of Tirana. He has left an impossible to remove mark on Albanian cinematographic developments. He started his film career in 1953 with the film “Skanderbeg”, which won the Cannes Film Festival award in 1954. Pjetër Gjoka is one of the oldest collaborators of Radio Tirana’s microphone.

On June 6, 1927 in Shkodër, lecturer and journalist Lec Zadeja was born. In addition to the pedagogical work, Lec Zadeja has collaborated with the microphone of Radio Shkodra and Radio Tirana. Hundreds of articles and literary writings have come out of his pen.

On June 6, 1937, the Commission for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Independence announced the international competition for the monument of Georg Kastrioti Skanderbeg. This was the first competition of this kind in our country.

On June 6, 1997, the American Congress honored Mother Theresa with the “Gold Medal”. On this occasion, the chairman of the House of Representatives said: “Mother Teresa, we are not the ones who honor you with this Act, you are the one who honors us by agreeing to come here to share your time with us. We are all in your debt.”

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