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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — The Spark That Ignited World War I

On a sunny summer day in 1914, the streets of Sarajevo buzzed with an uneasy mix of excitement and tension. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, along with his wife Sophie, was making a much-anticipated visit to the city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a region rife with political tension and nationalist fervor. …

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