Read about the event 100 years ago today that sparked the beginning of WWI
(The June 28 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated
(The June 28 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated
n an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.
The great Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, the man most responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871, was quoted as saying at the end of his life that "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans." It went as he predicted.
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