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Princip shoots the Archduke and his wife; both die within the hour in Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand and Sophie survived a grenade attack earlier this morning before their car stalled near the Latin Bridge, where a Young Bosnia nationalist stepped forward with a pistol.
The Austro-Hungarian heir and his wife had already survived one attempt on their lives that morning — a grenade thrown by Nedeljko Čabrinović — when their car stalled near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Gavrilo Princip, a member of the South Slav nationalist group Young Bosnia, stepped forward and fired an FN Model 1910 pistol, striking Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the neck and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in the abdomen. Both died within the hour. The July Crisis that followed brought Europe's major powers into a war that would kill millions…
