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(Australia, New Zealand, UK, military slang, humorous, obsolete) It doesn't matter. World War I started on this day 110 years ago in 1914, when Austria-Hungary formally declared war on Serbia a month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir presumptive to the throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo.

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