Sunday, July 27, 2014

100 Years Ago Today

To give you a sense of the pace of things as the world stumbled resolutely into World War I, you may recall that June 28 was the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Here's the front page of the Chicago Tribune on Monday, July 27, 1914. (Click image to reembiggenificate.)

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