On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian

Empire, visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. A group of six assassins (Cvjetko Popović,
Gavrilo Princip, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež, and Vaso
Čubrilović) from the Yugoslavist group Mlada Bosna, who had been supplied with arms by
the Serbian Black Hand, gathered on the street where the Archduke's motorcade was to pass,
with the intention of assassinating him. The political objective of the assassination was to
break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces, which Austria-Hungary had annexed from
the Ottoman Empire, so they could be combined into Yugoslavia.[citation needed]

Čabrinović threw a grenade at the car but missed. Some nearby were injured by the blast, but
Ferdinand's convoy carried on. The other assassins failed to act as the cars drove past them.
[citation needed]

About an hour later, when Ferdinand was returning from a visit at the Sarajevo Hospital with
those wounded in the assassination attempt, the convoy took a wrong turn into a street where,
by coincidence, Princip stood. With a pistol, Princip shot and killed Ferdinand and his wife
Sophie. Although they were reportedly not personally close, the Emperor Franz Joseph was
profoundly shocked and upset. The reaction among the people in Austria, however, was mild,
almost indifferent. As historian Zbyněk Zeman later wrote, "the event almost failed to make
any impression whatsoever. On Sunday and Monday (28 and 29 June), the crowds in Vienna
listened to music and drank wine, as if nothing had happened."[46][47] Nevertheless, the
political effect of the murder of the heir to the throne was significant, and was described by
historian Christopher Clark on the BBC Radio 4 series Month of Madness as a "9/11 effect, a
terrorist event charged with historic meaning, transforming the political chemistry in
Vienna."[48]

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