Same Day, Different Century
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Same Day, Different Century
The Wrong Turn
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Zach Ipsen
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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot and killed in Sarajevo alongside his wife Sophie. The assassination nearly didn't happen. The morning's plot had already fallen apart, and the young gunman Gavrilo Princip stood outside a Sarajevo deli convinced it was over. Then came a wrong turn, a stalled engine, and a moment of terrible chance. Within six weeks, six nations were at war.