Facts about Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

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   A group of six conspirators was positioned along the Appel Quay that day, yet most failed to act before Princip fired the fatal shots.

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   Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, a nationalist organization seeking to end Austro-Hungarian rule over Slavic peoples in the Balkans.

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   Franz Ferdinand's wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, was also killed in the attack, shot in the abdomen moments after her husband.

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   The assassination took place in Sarajevo, then part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which Austria-Hungary had formally annexed in 1908.

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   Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, an event widely regarded as the immediate trigger of World War I.

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