On April 12th, 1997, Leka Zogu returned to Tirana with the royal family. He was just a newborn baby when the royal retinue escaped on April 7th, 1939. The Congress of Përmeti had banned the return to Albania for the royal family. Leka Zogu proclaimed in Paris king of Albania, in 1991 returned to his hometown in a serious time crisis for the country.
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1 April 1258, the despot Mihal of Epirus gives Burtinti and the Albanian coast, as a dowry for the marriage of the son of the German Emperor
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1 April 1835, died Bartolomeo Pino, the Italian sculptor and painter
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1 April 1933, the Italy stopped Tirana’s payment of loan installment; the country was plunged in crisis
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1 April 1929, entered in force the first Penal Code in Albania
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1 April 1967, began the action for the construction of the road in the Great Highland