Today's Class

In class today, we talked about Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and that he and his wife were assassinated on June 28 in the year on 1914.The First attempt to kill Ferdinand was to bomb his car but it failed. The second time was the charm. When Ferdinand's car stopped after the bomb attempt a man Gavrilo Princip stood next to the car and shot both Ferdinand and wife. We talked about how Kaiser Wilhelm, Queen Victoria, and Tsar Nicholas were all first cousins. Soon Nicholas choose different races over his family, and Kaiser didn't understand that he didn't know why his onw flesh and blood would do him and queen Victoria that way.