RE: What's your favorite "History is Stranger than Fiction" moment from worl...
March 3, 2016 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2016 at 7:57 am by Eclipse.)
(February 21, 2016 at 1:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Franz Ferdinand's assassination. He survived several attempts on his life during the motorcade, but his chauffeur made a wrong turn on the way to the Archduke's next engagement, and that was down a dead-end alley. It just so happened that Gavril Princip, one of the plotters, was walking down this alley, dejected because he'd missed any chance to make his attempt during the motorcade, when he realized that his target had just realized their mistake and were trying to turn around. He took his opportunity and made his kill.
The spark that lit Europe ablaze would not have happens had it not been for a wrong turn and a random encounter.
Iv'e often argued that young, 19 yr old Gavrilo Princip had a bigger influence on the 20th century than any other human who lived for at least part of that century.
The chain of events those shots set off is quite amazing and sill impacts on the world today.
