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caused friction, both within Austria-Hungary, and also between Russia and
Austria-Hungary.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is heir to the Habsburg Family throne of Austria-
Hungary. While traveling through the Bosnian city of Sarajevo with his wife,
Sophie, a bomb is thrown at the Archduke's open car. He deflects the bomb with
his arm and it explodes behind him. The royal couple insists on seeing all those
injured at the hospital. After traveling there, they decide to go to the palace, but
their driver takes a wrong turn onto a side street, where another assassin named
Gavrilo Princip spots them. He shoots Sophie in the stomach and Franz in the
neck. Franz is still alive when witnesses arrive to give aid. His dying words to
Sophie are, "Don't die darling. Live for our children." (12)
The world is shocked. The fateful prophecies of Tolstoy and Bismarck are about
to come to pass.
SUMMER POST ASSASSINATION CHAIN-REACTION SETS
1914 EUROPE ON FIRE
JUNE 29 Anti-Serbian riots erupt in the Austro-Hungarian city of
Sarajevo.
JULY 7 Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of Ministers to discuss
the situation.
JULY The Zionist Austro-Hungarian press of Vienna fans the
flames of anti-Serbian sentiment. False reports of a Serbian