@article{ref1,
title="A thursday before the war: 28 May 1914 in Vienna",
journal="Austrian History Yearbook",
year="2014",
author="Healy, M.",
volume="45",
number="",
pages="134-149",
abstract="On 28 May 1914, the Viennese press reported that a young man from the sixteenth district in Vienna had attempted suicide. Sitting on a bench at the Pezzlpark, twenty-one-year-old laborer Karl P. shot himself in the head with a revolver. The motive, one newspaper reported, was said to be unrequited love. By chance, the same park bench would see more action later that day. Pregnant twenty-three-year-old laborer Marie B. was on her way to a birthing clinic when she went into labor. Sitting on what the newspaper now deemed the Selbstmörderbankerl, with the help of two nearby watchmen, she gave birth to a girl. The headline Death and Life on a Bench highlighted one extraordinary coincidence in an otherwise ordinary day in the city. © 2014 Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0067-2378",
doi="10.1017/S0067237813000647",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0067237813000647"
}