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Albanian > Timeline: 1950-present
- 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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