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 ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand — heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne — was assassinated with his wife, Sophie, on June 28, 1914. They survived a bomb attack on their motorcade in the streets of Sarajevo ...

On June 28, 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked World War I. NPR's Ari Shapiro takes a tour of the city and learns the... A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A ...

In the most literal sense, playwright Rajiv Joseph’s latest dark comedy “Archduke” is about the Serbian radicals who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, setting off ...

Who knew that the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria — the event that reputedly triggered the start of World War I — could be so ridiculously witty? Apparently playwright Rajiv Joseph ...

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

Archduchess Estelle de Saint-Romain of Austria has died. She was 46. A statement published in Le Figaro's Carnet du Jour ...