We all learned in school that World War One was initiated because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (pictured above) but it very well have been because of an wrong turn by his limo driver, Leopold Lojka.

The Archduke was in Sarajevo, Bosnia and, earlier in the day, had a bomb tossed at his car by a would be assassin. The bomb exploded after his car had passed and injured others behind them in another car. The Archduke and his wife Sophie took a brief rest and then insisted on going out to visit at a local hospital those injured in the blast because, why not?

Hopping in his car, a open-roofed Double Phaeton limousine, the line of cars sped off to the hospital. Only no one told the drivers where they were going. Finding out they were going in the wrong direction the convoy of cars stalls and tries to turn around in the narrow street.

In the meantime, in a cafe on the very same street, Gavrilo Princip is munching away on some Bosnian food (probably bosanki lonac, the national dish of Bosnia) and angrily muttering to himself on the failed earlier attempt on the Archdukes life.

Glancing out of the window, he sees the stalled limo and rushes out and promptly shoots Sophie in the stomach and Ferdinand in the neck. Sophie, seeing the blood coming out of her husbands mouth exclaims, ““For Heaven’s sake! What happened to you?” and promptly falls into her husband’s lap. The Archduke, cries out to his wife. “Sophie dear! Don’t die! Stay alive for our children!” and then slumps down into his seat. His feathered cap slips off his head sending green feathers throughout the car.

Both would die in transit back to the Townhall which they had started from.

Princip would be tried for the murder of the Archduke and his wife and would die four years later from tuberculosis. Another 40 million people would later die in World War One.