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The Sarajevo or Vidovdan assassination took place on June 28 (June 15, according to the Julian calendar) in Sarajevo, (Bosnia and Herzegovina), when Gavrilo Princip from a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosnian Muslim) were members of the Young Bosnia organization. , coordinated by Danilo Ilić, killed the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophia, Duchess of Hohenberg. The political motives for the murder were the desire to separate the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its unification into Greater Serbia or Yugoslavia.
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