Modern Era · Europe · War
1914
Franz Ferdinand shot in Sarajevo
June 28, 1914
After a comically botched morning bombing, the Austrian archduke's driver took a wrong turn and rolled straight past a Bosnian Serb teenager named Gavrilo Princip. He fired twice at point-blank range. The heir and his pregnant wife died in the back seat. Within six weeks Europe was at war, and the old world was finished.
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