The former Prime Minister of Italy, Francesco Crispi, descendant from the Arbëresh of Calabria, on October 3, 1895, was elected honorary president of the first Arbëresh Congress of the language. Albanian by blood and heart, he confirmed his appreciation about this beginning, with the hope that it will be necessary for the history of Albanian self-government.

On October 3, 1912, the fraternity of the Albanians of Egypt “Bashkimi” /The Union/ published and distributed in the form of a treaty, the call to the Albanian patriots to help the Albanian schools.

In October 1936, the first issue of the monthly magazine “Përpjekja shqiptare”/Albanian Effort/ was published, under the direction of the journalist Branko Merxhani.

At the age of 36, the writer Kolë Mirdita, known by the nickname “Helenau”, passed away. In 1959, his poems and stories published in the press of the time were collected and included in the volume “Trëndafila që s’çelin për ne” /Roses that don’t bloom for us/.

On October 3, 1949, the patriot Mit’hat Frashëri passed away in New York. He was born in Janina/Ioannina, on March 25, 1880. He graduated in Istanbul. At the end of the 19th century, Mit’hat Frashëri became involved in Albanian National Renaissance Movement. He participated in the Congress of Letters of Manastir, in 1908, known also as the Congress of the Alphabet. In Ismail Qemali’s Government of Independent Albania (1912), he was elected Minister of Education, having to resign a year after. He welcomed the arrival of Prince von Wied in 1914 and after his departure Mit’hat Frashëri also left Albania. He settled in Bucharest, where he was arrested by the police and then exiled to Moldova to then return in Albania. After the invasion by fascist Italy (1939), he decided to return to political activity. In 1941, he is the main ideologue and one of the founders of the Balli Kombëtar Party /National Front/. With the communists coming to power in the fall of 1944, he was forced to leave Albania and settle in Italy. During a trip to New York, US, on October 3, 1949, he passed away after a heart attack.

On October 3, 1994, the Republic of Albania acceded to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, which was passed in New York on May 9, 1992.

On October 3, 2003, the well-known composer Tish Daija passes away in Tirana at the age of 78. He was born on January 30, 1926 in Shkodër. He started his musical creativity under the tunes of the accordion. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He was one of the founders of the Tirana Conservatory. Tish Daija was also a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosova. He was a composer of all musical genres.

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