On a bright sunny Sunday morning, June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, accompanied by his morganatic wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, drove down the streets of Sarajevo. Soon a bomb came hurtling through the air, crashing on the roadway behind the royal automobile, exploding with a deafening roar.
Reaching the town hall the Archduke walked up the steps in a towering rage. Snarled he to the mayor: "Mr. Mayor, I come here on a visit and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous. Now you may speak."
Leaving the town hall for the residence of the governor of Bosnia...
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