On this date, in 1914 One-Shot in Sarajevo, the assassination of the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited World War One.
On this day in 1914: Two shots in Sarajevo ignited the fires of war and drew Europe toward World War I. Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by Gavrilo Princip.