Whose assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the war?
Fehim Čurčić drowned out the bomb. Gavrilo Princip managed to assassinate Ferdinand and his wife in the second attempt, an event that sparked the First World War that changed the world. Fehim Čurčić Fehim Effendi Čurčić (1866 – 12 February 1916) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 5th Mayor of Sarajevo from 1910 to 1915. On 28 June 1914, Mayor Čurčić welcomed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg to Sarajevo and was present later the same day at their assassination, the event that sparked World War I. He died aged 30 in an Austrian
Queensland in World War I (1914) visit to King George V in October 1913 was also widely reported in Australia. The announcement of his assassination in Sarajevo on 26 June 1914 was noted with regret. This event sparked World War I in which over 60,000 Australian men were killed and more than 130,000 wounded or incapacitated. On 29 July 1914, Governor-General Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson received a cable from the British government stating that Australia should "adopt precautionary phase" for war with the "names of powers will be communicated later if necessary". The steps to take in the eventuality of hostilities had been laid down in