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Archduke Assassination

  • Archduke Assassination

    Archduke Assassination
    In June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie traveled to Bosnia. On June 28, the couple went to the capital city of Sarajevo to inspect imperial troops stationed there, their driver inadvertently drove them past Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip who shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife at point-blank range.