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Article: GUN THAT STARTED WWI; Amazing tale of the priest and a pistol that vanished for 90 years.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Byline: SARAH CHALMERS
JUST after 11am, on the stiflingly hot morning of June 28, 1914, a slight young man stepped in front of a motorcade carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie through the streets of Sarajevo.
Standing just four feet away, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Serb nationalist, pulled a Browning pistol from his pocket, took aim at the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and then, turning his head away, pulled the trigger.
The first shot hit the Archduke in the neck.
The second hit his wife in the stomach.
For a split second, the couple sat motionless, before simultaneously slumping forward in their ...