The 100-year anniversary of the most important event in the 20th century passed recently with predictably scant notice in the American media. The anniversary can’t be that of the allied D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II, because that event happened only 70 years ago. And it’s not the anniversaries of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the moon shot, or the 9/11 attacks.
On June 28, 1914, one hundred years ago, the Archduke Ferdinand–to be the future ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire–was gunned down by a Serbian-government sponsored assassination team. What? A few Americans might vaguely …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
