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- 1973:
The Fan S. Noli Library and Archives is established in Boston, which
the Harvard Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups lauds as "the finest
repository of Albanian culture in the Western Hemisphere."
- 1975:
The first Albanian Youth Chorale is organized in Boston under the direction
of Van Christo.
- 1978:
The Horatio Alger Award is accorded to Albanian Immigrant and acclaimed
restauranteur Anthony
Athanas, founder of Anthony's Fine Restaurants, including
Anthony's Pier 4 on Boston's waterfront.
- 1982:
Centennial symposium of the birth of Archbishop Fan S. Noli is held
at Harvard.
- 1987:
Mother Theresa, of Albanian origin, establishes Missionaries of Charity
in the Roxbury.
- 1988:
A Boston Albanian Orthodox priest, the Very Reverend Arthur Evans Liolin,
Chancellor Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America, is the first clergyman
to enter "atheist" Albania where religion was outlawed by the Communist
government in 1967 and reinstated in 1989-1990.
- 1990:
President Ramiz Alia, the first Albanian leader in office to visit the
United States, arrives in Boston.
- 1991:
Albanian Humanitarian Aid Committee is established in Boston,
sponsoring the first shipments of food and clothing to Albania. It also
organizes ESL classes for new Albanian arrivals.
- 1992:
First democratically elected president of Albania, Dr. Sali Berisha,
visits Boston.
- 1993:
Kosova leader, Ibrahim Rugova, visits Boston.
- 1994:
The Frosina Foundation, later known as the Frosina
Information Network, is formed in Boston by Van Christo to
serve as an Albanian immigrant and cultural resource.
- 1995:
Boston Albanian-American restauranteur, Anthony Athanas of Anthony's
Pier 4 fame, is named Honorary Consul of Albania. Faik Konitza, former
ambassador of Albania to the USA, former editor of "Dielli" and other
Albanian publications and newspapers, who died in Boston in 1941, is
reinterred from Forest Hills Cemetery to Tirana, Albania, where his
remains are received with high honors.
- 1998:
Second democratically elected president of Albania, Professor Dr. Rexhep
Meidani, visits Boston.
- 1999:
Saint George
Albanian Orthodox Cathedral in South Boston
is placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department
of the Interior and the Massachusetts Historical Commission. Prime minister
of Albania, Pandeli Majko, Europe's youngest premier (age 31), visits
Boston. Metropolitan John Pelushi, the first orthodox bishop consecrated
in Albania in 30 years, visits Boston. It is estimated that there are
now over 35,000 Albanians living in Greater Boston, including some 1,000
Kosovar Albanians.
See 1850-1949
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