1389. It also was the day during the 2nd Balkan war when Serbian armies took revenge on the Turks. Francis Ferdinands visit on this day made Serbians mad but it meant something totally different for the Narodna Obrandna. They saw this as an opportunity to kill Francis Ferdinand and start the revolutionary movement against Austria-Hungary. From the date Narodna Obrandna received the paper telling of the event, to a few days before they prepared the assassination. The guns and hand grenades were bought from Major Tankosic, a leader of a Serbian radical group. The guns were kept in a teachers home until the night before the event, and were distributed the next morning.On June 28, 1914 as Francis Ferdinand drove through the city of Sarajevo a hand grenade was thrown at his car but it missed him and his car drove to the Town Hall quickly. From there Francis Ferdinand was given advice to laeve as soon as possible, and that was what he was going to do. On his drive out of Sarajevo he met Gavril Princip. Princip fired two shot one into the abdomen of Sofia Choteks heart and one near the heart of Francis Ferdinand. Both the Archduke and his wife died that day.Was this a significant event in World History?Yes, the assassination at Sarajevo was a significant event in World History. The shots fired by Princip on that Sunday triggered was across Europe and started the fire that was World War I. Had this assassination not happened maybe the world would have come to peace sooner and began work on bigger economic, scientific, and political issues in the world....
