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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18 June 1878, the Albanian League of Prizren passed a series of decisions that were included in what was called the “Book of Decisions”
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18 June 1880, “Istanbul Albanian Committee” sent a protest to the Berlin Conference
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18 June 1914, in the ports of Durres and Shengjin, anchored English and French warships
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18 June 1922, the Shkodra Teachers’ League was formed