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The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary(Which is No longer here) on June 28, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the next heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and was assassinated by a Serbian man on the Princip Bridge (Now Called the Latin Bridge).

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