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The Assassination That Started Everything

A driver's wrong turn on a Sarajevo street started the twentieth century.

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip's first assassination attempt failed. Franz Ferdinand's car took a wrong turn minutes later and stopped directly in front of him. But the popular version — sandwich in hand, dumb luck — is a myth. The real story is stranger, more tragic, and haunted by a question historians still cannot close: was World War One inevitable, or did the twentieth century turn on a single contingent moment?

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World War One Assassination Franz Ferdinand Gavrilo Princip Sarajevo Austria-Hungary Black Hand July Crisis Archduke Sophie Chotek 1914 Balkans Counterfactual history Wrong turn

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