4 Franz Ferdinand escaped unhurt from a first assassination attempt on June 28, 1914 when an assassin threw a grenade at his car. Others were injured and the archduke insisted on visiting them at ...

Franz Ferdinand, Whose Assassination Sparked a World War 2016-06-28T07:42:47-04:00 June 28, 2016 7:42 AM ET. On June 28, 1914, an 18-year-old student named Gavrilo Princip fired a pistol in ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated 100 years ago today. This April 4, 2014 photo shows a reproduction of a London newspaper front page from 1914, which writes about the assassination of ...

Sometimes, history can seem to pivot on a single event. While the underlying causes were numerous, historians generally accept that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the most ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's motorcade in Sarajevo shortly before his assassination took place. | Heritage Images/GettyImages. They rode with Governor Potiorek in the back of a brand new Gräf ...

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s ...