"Our shades shall tread Vienna's streets, roaming the courtyard, striking fear in noble hearts."
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Written on the wall of his prison cell shortly before death
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Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip (Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип) (25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Yugoslav nationalist, famous for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914. The assassinations set off a chain of events that led to World War I. He had Tuberculosis and had come from a poor family, which, combined with the fact that he was a Nationalist, made him kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914.
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