The Two Bombs and Six Shots Fired in Sarajevo on the Morning of 28 June 1914 by Six Bosnian Serb Students That Started the First World War
Six members of the Young Bosnia movement attempted to assassinate the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on the morning of 28 June 1914. The first attempt — a bomb thrown by Nedeljko Čabrinović — failed. The second — two pistol shots by Gavrilo Princip — killed the Archduke and his wife Sophie. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia within a month. The First World War followed.
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