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On this day, June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page• 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip (pictured), a Yugoslav nationalist, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip