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This event’s perpetrator was imprisoned in Terezín, where he died of tuberculosis. After this event, one city's Hotel Europa was damaged in riots encouraged by Governor Oskar Potiorek (“put-YOUR-ek”). One participant in this event failed to commit suicide after eating expired cyanide and jumping in a river that was only six inches deep. The Salonika Trial persecuted leaders of the organization behind this event, the Black Hand. (10[1])After the victim’s car stalled outside Moritz Schiller’s Delicatessen, Gavrilo Princip shot this event’s central figure. For 10 points, name this event where an Austrian archduke was killed, a leading short-term cause of World War I. ■END■

ANSWER: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [accept any answers implying that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed; prompt on assassination; prompt on death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]
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2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY2100%0%0%43.50
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY1100%0%0%65.00
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1100%0%0%40.00
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY3100%0%33%67.67
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY10100%0%10%45.30