According to the decision of the Council of Ministers dated April 21st, 1939, the Italian Fascist Party leader, Benito Mussolini, was declared the first honorary citizen of Albania. With another decision of the collaborationist government of the same date, the fascist Foreign Minister Count Ciano, was declared honorary citizen of Tirana. On April 21st, 1939, the main streets of our capital city was baptized with the names of the leaders of Rome, so the boulevard “Zogu,” was named “Vittorio Emanuele III”; the street “Mbretëresha Geraldine” was named “Galeazzo Ciano,” the square “Tirana re ” was baptized square “Savoy “, etc.
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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