I always heard a miscommunication had started World War 1. This is a small synopsis of how getting directions wrong in a car led to WW1!

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is an example of how one wrong turn can change the course of history. It was the assassination of this man that set off one of the largest wars in the history of mankind. It was June 28th, 1914, and the Archduke and his wife were on a harmless motorcade in Bosnia. The Black Hand, a secret Serbian terrorist society, attempted to assassinate Franz by throwing a grenade at the motorcade but accidentally missed and hit the wrong car. After the botched assassination attempt the group decided to hide in the city. The story goes that the Archduke decided to visit one of the victims at a local hospital, but the driver being unfamiliar with the roads made a wrong turn. What seemed like help came in the form of a young man sitting by the road. Unfortunately for the Archduke, the young man was actually one of the conspirators involved in the assassination attempt. What happened to be the Archduke’s unluckiest day of his life, was also the luckiest day of this man’s life. Seeing that he had a second chance, the man quickly shot the Archduke and his wife. This misunderstanding of directions on the driver’s part not only led to the death of the Archduke and his wife, but the start of World War 1, which claimed nearly 10 million lives.