The “National Defense of Kosovo” Committee was created in illegality on May 1st, 1918. From November of that year it settled in Shkodra. It was a national-political organization that fought for the defense of the Albanian independent state, its democratization, the liberation of Kosovo and other Albanian lands of Yugoslavia, unjustly detached in 1913 and their union with Albania. It was leaded by Hoxha Kadri and other distinguished patriots as: Hasan Prishtina, Bajram Curri, Sali Nivica, Hysni Curri, etc.
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8 May, National Day of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent
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8 May 1786, was premiered the “Skanderbeg” tragedy on the stage of the French Theater in Paris
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8 May 1910, took place the battle of Carralaves, between the Albanian insurgents and Ottoman armies
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8 May 1926, was concluded the agreement between the Albanian Government and the Serbian-Albanian Bank
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8 May 1937, King Zog I decreed the Law on Changing the Names of Some Cities, Villages, Wards, Rivers, etc