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On which date did the assassination take place

  • 28 December 1914

  • 28 July 1914

  • 28 June 1914

  • 28 May 1914

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary took place on 28 June 1914. Franz Ferdinand was the heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The assassination sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.
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