6. The Event That Triggered the World War I
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More than 102 years have passed since two bullets fired by 19-year-old Serbian anarchist, Gavrilo Princip, the member of revolutionary movement Young Bosnia, killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife Sophie, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. This event ranks 6th on our list of most important historical events that changed the world forever. For some, he is a hero to others a villain, but what is for sure is that his actions started the domino effect. And, the first domino tile in a line was a World War I. What should have been the act of setting people in Bosnia and Herzegovina free of Austro-Hungarian oppressions became the primary cause of the biggest sufferings world has ever seen until then.
