Tuesday, July 28, 1914: On this day, one hundred and twelve years ago today, “Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated at Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist a month earlier, on June 28, 1914, touching off the conflict that became World War I. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia July 28, the formal beginning…
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