| Having learned that Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, would pay an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia, six revolutionaries awaited his procession on this day in 1914. Among the six were Gavrilo Princip and his associate Nedjelko ?abrinovi?. ?abrinovi? 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, Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, ... |