Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Latin Bridge near the assassination site. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. Ironically, ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, leave the reception at City Hall in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 shortly before they were assassinated. AP The ...

While fact and fiction often blend in retrospect, according to various accounts in his final days, Archduke Franz Ferdinand expressed forebodings about his journey to Bosnia to observe the empire’s ...

Instead, the bomb hurled by Nedeljko Cabrinovic exploded under the car behind, injuring its ­passengers but leaving the archduke unscathed. Later that same day, June 28, 1914, freakish ill fortune ...

According to the American diplomat George F. Kennan, the First World War was the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century, “the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of ...

Bosnia has been buried in historic floods and paralyzed by political dysfunction. Now, locals in Sarajevo are frustrated that the world has only begun focusing on the region for the upcoming ...