The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was an heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian, and Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia. On June 28, 1914, on their way to City Hall, a grenade was thrown at Franz and Sophie’s car, but it bounced off the car and landed under the car behind, injuring many. Franz and his wife Sophie were shot in Sarajevo while returning from an official visit to City Hall. Franz was shot in the jugular and Sophie in the abdomen. Both Franz and Sophie died before they could get any treatment.
Gavrilo Princip was the assassin, a 19-year-old. The point of killing Franz was to combine the Austria-Hungary south-Slav provinces into a Yugoslavia. The Serbian military was behind the attack. Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijevic, Major Vojislav Tankosic, and Master Spy Rade Malobabic were the conspirators of the military. Major Tankosic trained the assassins. When it was all said and done, Gavrilo Princip was sentenced to 20 years in jail. The attack and bombing led to other outbreaks which led to World War I, one month later.
This topic was tough to research for two reasons. One, because it was all about one day and there wasn’t much information to find. Two, because everyone’s names had accents and such and it was just confusing to read and understand it. I had never heard of this guy before or known about this assassination, so it was a good blog topic to have. I think it’s pretty stupid that people kill people in any situation. Tough it out, seriously. About the only word I could pronounce in this whole research was Yugoslavia. I will admit, it’s really hard to write a good blog (or paper, or whatever) when you can’t pronounce names. Hopefully after doing blog discussions I can understand this just a little more.
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