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| Picture No | 10215141 |
| Date | 28 June 1914 |
| Description | Assassination in Sarajevo |
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Photograph showing the arrest of Gavrilo Princips, leader of the group of Serbian nationalists, who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914, during a tour of Sarajevo. The incident was used as a pretext for Austria to attack Serbia, thus precipitating World War I.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. July 11th, 1914. P.49 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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