Princip
GAVRILO, the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. He was a native of Bosnia and one of the extreme Serbian patriots.
When the Archduke visited Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, an attempt was made to assassinate him with bombs. Narrowly escaping death, the Archduke and his wife were being driven in a carriage to the royal palace when Princip fired into the equipage just as it turned the corner of a narrow street. The Archduke and Duchess were killed almost instantly.
Princip was arrested and died two years later while awaiting trial.
PRINTING 1317. The great discovery was that of forming every letter or character of the alphabet separately. The credit of inventing this simple yet marvelous art is contested by the Dutch and Germans.
Printing was brought to England in 1476 or 1477 by William Caxton. The first printing press set up in America was introduced by the Viceroy of Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, and the first book printed by it in the New World was "The Ladder de S. Juan Climaco" (1536).
The earliest press in the British-American colonies was brought over for Harvard College in 1638. "Bay Psalm Book" (1640) was its first important work; but in 1639 it printed the "Freeman's Oath" and an almanac. In Philadelphia a press was set up in 1685, in New York in 1693.
The earliest improvement on the printing press was made by the celebrated Earl Stanhope, who constructed a press of iron of sufficient size to print a whole surface of a sheet. A multitude of im-