On March 26th, 1939, the secret envelope with the draft agreement of the “effective annexation” of Albania was on the desk of King Zog. In this case, the British biographer Jason Tomes writes: “King Zog stood alone for hours in his office smoking, reading and rereading the draft agreement. On that Saturday, on March 26th, 1939, Mussolini held before 200,000 people in Rome, his speech commemorating the twentieth anniversary of fascism. He called the eternal peace a disaster and ended with the words: “More guns, more planes at any cost and way; even if we have to eliminate all what we call civilized life!
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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