Weatherday: Revenge for the Archduke

There will be showers today, some heavy, possibly some lightning. Top temperatures up to 16deg in moderate to fresh west to northwest winds.

Brighter towards the evening.

On this day in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, using the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand as a pretext and triggering World War 1.

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