The world changed on this day 103 years ago.

[Fr J Hackett]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/28/day-1914-archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated-sarajevo/

 

[Biggles Wader]

Was that Duke Ferdinand of Felixstowe?

 

[PaulJ]

The coat the Archduke was wearing and the car in which he was travelling are both in the Museum of Military History in Vienna, both have bullet holes clearly visible. As you stand looking at them the sense of history is tangible.......

Paul

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Ooops wrong forum.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Let me guess.................

Thinks...............

Stainless wire rigging invented ?

First polyester sail ?

Clockwork Decca ?

Keelhauling banned ?

Tom Cunliffe wigs first became available ?

 

[Kukri]

Was that Duke Ferdinand of Felixstowe?

My recollection is that the Empress of Germany stayed at the rather nice house on the beach at Felixstowe...

 

[westhinder]

My recollection is that the Empress of Germany stayed at the rather nice house on the beach at Felixstowe...

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