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What major event started wwi?

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The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at 1:15 pm on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo was the first shot of WW1 fired by Gavrilo Princip an assassin employed by the terrorist group The Black Hand.

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The assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914.

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