What really happened on June 28th 1914? Everybody knows that a man named Gavrilo Princip shot Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia. This event would become the immediate cause for the outbreak of World War I. What only few people know is that, on the same day, Franz Ferdinand had luckily escaped another attempted assassination and that only through an amazing combination of luck and coincidence did Gavrilo Princip manage to fulfill his plan. So what really happened in Sarajevo on that lovely summer day? Nobody knows exactly. However, testimonies gathered by the police and the trial documents, combined with the historical research, help us build a clearer image of the incident that ended up changing the world. Everything starts in 1913, in Vienna, capital of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand agrees to travel the following year to Bosnia, to inspect the garrison troops. His wife, Sofia, is allowed to accompany him, despite the imperial etiquette on morganatic marriages. So plans were made for the couple to travel to Sarajevo on June 28th. It was a date that brought back ugly memories to the Archduke: on the same day, in 1900, he had agreed to renounce the throne for the children he would have with Sofia. The date was also significant for the Bosnian Serbs, reminding them of the defeat they had suffered in Kossovopolje, against the Ottoman Empire. Learning that the Archduke would travel to Sarajevo in June 1914, a couple of Serbs decide to assassinate him. But how will they do it?! Franz Ferdinand and his wife arrived in Sarajevo on June 25th. Three days later, on Sunday the 28th, they will attend the religious ceremony hosted by the hotel chapel. Afterward, the two joined the festive suite that toured the city. Meanwhile, the plotters had decided to separate in three groups scattered across the city’s main street. Their plan w