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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Hubert Butler estimated that the gun that killed the Archduke changed hands 20 times between Belgrade and Sarajevo. Had any of these connections failed, the assassination attempt would have almost certainly been called off. As such, it is a truly astonishing and unnerving fact that so many tiny happenstances should culminate in a single instance of violence by a single human that would change the course of global history forever.