Weatherday: The shots that killed 40 million

Looking like showers most of the day in predominantly cloudy conditions. A blustery wind from the southwest will range moderate to fresh.

Highest temperature 11deg.

On this day in 1914, a young Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, which was to cause WW1.

(Headline: An estimated 40 million people died in WW1 around the world.)

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