Ferdinand also advocated the idea of a federalism.
These ideas were not popular among the ruling elite.
Most of them failed to act until the car approached one conspirator Nedeljko Cabrinovic.
Its explosion left a 1-foot-diameter crater on the street and wounded several people.
Meanwhile, Cabrinovic had swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river.
Cabrinovic sprained his ankles and was unable to move.
His cyanide pill didnt work either and only induced vomiting.
He was later dragged out of the river and severely beaten by the crowd.
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leave the Sarajevo Guildhall after reading a speech on June 28 1914.
It is outrageous!.
However, no one told the drivers that the itinerary had been changed.
The car was supposed to go straight but it turned right at the corner.
When the error was discovered, the driver applied the brakes and the car came to a halt.
Upon seeing the car, he raced across the street and pumped two bullets into the couple.
The first one hit Sophie and the second hit Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip received twenty years in prison but he died 3 years later of tuberculosis.
World War I was already underway.
A year later, the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed and Yugoslavia was born, and Princip became a national hero.
The concrete footprints were destroyed during the 199295 war in Bosnia.
The memorial plaque can still be seen today.
