Realizing his good fortune, Princip quickly drew his Model 1910 FN Browning pocket pistol chambered in 9 mm Kurz (.380 ACP) and fired twice at Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, mortally wounding them. Leaving the hospital, the archduke’s driver lost his way and drove down a wrong street, unfortunately where one of the attempted assassins, Bosnian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, was standing outside a café. ![]() After leaving the town hall, he decided to visit the hospital where the men wounded in the earlier grenade attack were being treated. S arajevo, Bosnia, June 28, 1914: Following a botched assassination attempt earlier in the day, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand, insisted on continuing with his official visit.
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