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3 days ago · The 1911 Gräf & Stift 28/32 PS Double Phaeton in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding at the time of his assassination, Museum of Military History, Vienna (2003) On the morning of Sunday 28 June 1914, Ilić positioned the six assassins along the motorcade route.
4 days ago · Introduction. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, is often cited as the spark that ignited World War I. The event, which claimed the lives of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife, Duchess Sophie, set in motion a chain of events that would forever alter the course of history.
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5 days ago · On June 28, 1914, a single event in Sarajevo, Bosnia, changed the course of history. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sophie, by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip set in motion a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.
4 days ago · The immediate trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo. This act of terrorism was particularly inflammatory given the long-standing tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
2 days ago · Believing that the Serbs’ cause would be served by the death of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph, and learning that the Archduke was about to visit Bosnia on a tour of military inspection, Apis plotted his assassination.
3 days ago · Increasing diplomatic tensions between the European great powers reached a breaking point on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassin...
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5 days ago · Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941, the first ‘day of infamy’ for the Western world in the 20th century occurred with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on Sunday, 28 June 1914.
