On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne of Austro-Hungary, was shot by 18-year-old Gavrilo Princip. This assassination, which would ultimately be the fuse that detonated WWI, happened by an odd series of coincidences on a street corner outside what is now the Sarajevo 1878–1918 museum.
During the Yugoslav era, Princip and his band of conspiritors were seen as anti-imperialist heroes and the spot was marked with a pair of shoeprints set in concrete. The concrete print-slab disappeared during the 1990s but a photo of it has been errected on a stand nearby.
