Why the death of a commoner matters

Jamal Khashoggi's murder was not an "assassination" by definition since he was not particularly famous

On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was  assassinated in Sarajevo. The details of the incident are baroque. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a former Turkish possession, which had been formally annexed by Austria in 1908. Many people in Serbia thought the map of the Balkans would look more aesthetic if Bosnia was part of Serbia instead.

Six members of a Serbian secret society, The Black Hand, were stationed along the VIP route to target the royal as he paraded around in an open car. One of them threw a grenade. The Archduke was