The circumstances of the shooting of Franz Ferdinand were unusual, but it was not seen as a particularly significant geopolitical event at the time. Here is the chain of events that transpired, ...

The imperial couple was on a tour of the Bosnian province that Austria had won from Turkey six years earlier. A young Serbian student was the shooter, believing that province must be Serbian. A second ...

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Editor's note: On June 27, 1964, Newsday published this article that went "Behind the Headlines," examining the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 50 years after it occurred. We republish it ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, a prominent member of the Habsburg dynasty, was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne before his life was cut short, the catalyst for a chain of events that threw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Latin Bridge near the assassination site. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. Ironically, ...

Franz Ferdinand is the name not only of the assassinated Archduke of Austria, considered the trigger for World War I; Franz Ferdinand is now a Scottish band that has made it big in Britain. Reviewer ...