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Join Daniel Pipes on a fact-finding expedition to Israel's Negev desert. For more information, please click here. Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. Dear Reader: The discussions I moderated at the Middle East Forum's 20th anniversary event with former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar (on Israel) and our own Steven J. Rosen (on U.S. policy in the Middle East) are now available here. Yours sincerely, Daniel Pipes _______________________________ The Worst Day in History by Daniel Pipes Jun 28, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/06/the-worst-day-in-history Print Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Gavrilo Princip. A hundred years ago today, June 28, 1914, was arguably the worst day in human history. Not that anything so awful happened during those 24 hours, but the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the Hapsburg throne by a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, initiated a series of events that led to not just the horrors of World War I but arguably also those of World War II as well as the rise to power of the fascist and communist movements. In brief, that vicious era that historians have dubbed the short twentieth century, 1914-89, with its unprecedented numbers of deaths, of extremist movements, and of general human misery began with the shots that festive summer day. (June 28, 2014) Related Topics:  History This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete and accurate information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL.

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