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The following events occurred in June 1914: The first page of the edition of the Domenica del Corriere , an Italian paper, with a drawing by Achille Beltrame depicting Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo .
June 2 – Johnny Bulla, golfer (died 2003) June 6 – H. Adams Carter, mountaineer, journalist and educator (died 1995) June 7 – Ralph M. Holman, attorney and judge (died 2013) June 10. Trammell Crow, property developer (died 2009) Joseph DePietro, weightlifter (died 1999) June 12 – Bill Kenny, African American tenor vocalist (died 1978)
May 16 – June 23 Eastern: Battle of Konary. May 23 Politics: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. [24] May 24–25 Western: Battle of Bellewaarde, final phase of the Second Battle of Ypres. May 31 – June 10 African, Kamerun: Second Battle of Garua. June–September Eastern: The Russian Great Retreat from Poland and Galicia. June 4
Trask, David F ed. World War I at home; readings on American life, 1914-1920 (1969) primary sources online; Tucker, Spencer C., and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2005). worldwide coverage; Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide (2014) excerpt
The imperial couple were dead by 11:30 a.m on 28 June 1914; [101] Sophie was dead on arrival at the Governor's residence, and Franz Ferdinand died 10 minutes later. [ 102 ] There is a myth which states that Princip had eaten a sandwich at Schiller's delicatessen just prior to the shooting, but there are no primary sources from the time which ...
The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...
The Great Salem fire of 1914, on June 25–26, destroyed 1,376 buildings and made over 18,000 people homeless or jobless in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. . It was among the last of the great industrial fires that plagued North American cities during the 19th century into the early 20th century.
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