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as royal entourage drove through the city serbian nationalist gavrilo prncip stepped from the crowd and shot the archduke and his wife.
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germany declars war on russia and france. great britain declares war on grmany and austria-hungary
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albert einstein proposes his general theory of relativity
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alexander gram bell makes first transcontinenal telephone call
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german u boats sink the luuitania and 1,198 peopel die
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woodrow wilson is reelected president