Franz Ferdinand
Americannoun
noun
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Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
It followed criticism from performers including Franz Ferdinand and Lewis Capaldi.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo was long ago and far away, its participants and empires now a hazy history.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss had joined the Nazi Party in the early 1920s and later became an SS officer, working at a concentration camp at Dachau, before transferring to Auschwitz, which he ran until 1943.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023
Crowds lined the parade route, waiting to catch a glimpse of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the imperial throne of Austria-Hungary, seat of the thousand-year-old Hapsburg Empire.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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