June 28, 1914 - 100 Years Ago Today

EDelahanty

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a Bosnian Serb whose Yugoslav nationalist group Young Bosnia was protesting the 1908 annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary.

These killings set off a chain of events which led directly to the war we now call World War One. Taken into custody at the scene, Princip was a few weeks short of his 20th birthday, the minimum age for capital punishment under Austro-Hungarian law. Instead he was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis and died in 1918.
 
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a Bosnian Serb whose Yugoslav nationalist group Young Bosnia was protesting the 1908 annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary.

These killings set off a chain of events which led directly to the war we now call World War One. Taken into custody at the scene, Princip was a few weeks short of his 20th birthday, the minimum age for capital punishment under Austro-Hungarian law. Instead he was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis and died in 1918.

World War One was a very terrible war. Great slaughter for nothing, except to redo it 20 years later.
 
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