Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated
 

...100 years ago this week... :eek:

Despite being simplistic and several inaccuracies, the Buffalo News article was pretty interesting...

History in a nutshell, so to speak... :thumbup:

A single shot that plunged the world into madness...

The pull of a trigger strarted one world war and a pull of another ended the second years later! ~~Eric

I don't think Hirohito pulled a trigger... :rolleyes:

You must have your World Wars mixed up... :p

Richey, you boob (love you) that is when hitler pulled my finger and gassed out.. "A breath of fresh air wrapped in a cloud of Submariner breath" later to none that survivied

Ohhhh whew!...saw the headline and thought they'd just shot another Archduke...........

The Marines were still fighting Japanese four months after Hitler shot himself... :mad:

How quickly some forget... :rolleyes:

On this day in 1950, the Korean War begins.....

A shame that he did not.

I remember V-J day.

I was working for UNCHR in 1995, and had to go to Sarajevo several times. It was kind of a weird feeling to stand right where the assassination happened, and at the same time seeing the effects of yet another war all around me.

It is interesting to note that it took almost 90 years for the murder's gun being correctly identified. For years had been said that it was a FN Browning 1900, but it was a Model 1910 - that also resurfaced only 10 years ago. Two shots, two kills - Gavrilo was indeed a great shooter.

They should have let in the army; he'd be much more useful to his country there.

According to a girl I know, every day is V-J day. ;)

I just ran across these interesting facts about Ferdinand.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/...anz-ferdinand/

Looks like he had it coming!! What a waste of a war!!

Yeah, too bad his wife got in the way.