The shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was fired a hundred years ago this weekend. The assassination in Sarajevo, on June 28, 1914, triggered World War I and changed the ...

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To those whose sense of history derives, as mine does, from the thumb-nail sketch offered in high school, the First World War arose from a tinderbox of overcommitted alliances that was ignited by the ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A century after Gavrilo Princip ignited World War I with a shot from his handgun, the baby-faced Serb teenager who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in ...

On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked World War I. NPR's Ari Shapiro takes a tour of the city and learns the... A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A ...

The Latin Bridge in Sarajevo ends at the street corner where Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914. This image, captured by ...