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2 days ago · The political objective of the assassination was to free Bosnia and Herzegovina of Austria-Hungarian rule and establish a common South Slav ("Yugoslav") state. The assassination precipitated the July Crisis which led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and the start of World War I .
- 28 June 1914; 109 years ago
Apr 24, 2024 · Čabrinović threw a bomb that bounced off the archduke’s car and exploded beneath the next vehicle. A short time later, while driving to a hospital to visit an officer wounded by the bomb, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were shot to death by Princip, who said he had aimed not at the duchess but at Gen. Oskar Potiorek, military governor of Bosnia.
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5 days ago · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
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May 3, 2024 · Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? How long did the Pearl Harbor attack last? Did the Pearl Harbor attack signal the beginning of World War II for the United States?
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May 2, 2024 · On the morning of June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were on a visit to Sarajevo when they were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group seeking to create a Greater Serbia. The assassination set off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the outbreak of World War I. The ...
May 7, 2024 · Uncover the riveting tale of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination and its world-changing repercussions. Dive into history to reveal the unexpected twists...
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6 days ago · The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, which would eventually trigger World War I, occurred after an enormous accumulation of coincidences. The France-based Bosnian writer Velibor Colic, author of a novel about the assassination, Sarajevo Omnibus , described the crime as a “chaotic ...
