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| | Newspaper Pictorials - Events and Statistics (American Memory from the Library of Congress) |
 | | On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenburg, were assassinated in Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia. |
 | | Although he was a Bosnian, feeling in Austria ran high against Serbia, which, it was claimed, was responsible for the deed, if not positively, at least negatively, by permitting her soil to be made the basis for anti-Austrian intrigue. |
 | | Austria- Hungary considers itself, therefore, from this moment in a state of war with Serbia. |
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