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Cas, Times. Czech newspaper from Monday, June 29, 1914. The headline reads: "The heir to the throne and his wife murdered." This murder set off a chain of events leading to World War I. The heir was the unpopular Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of the Emperor Franz Josef.