Under Monday, August 2, the book of history records, among other things:
216 v. Chr.: Second Punic War: In the battle of Cannae in Apulia, the Roman army under the consul Terentius Varro suffers the greatest defeat in its history. After initial successes, she was defeated in a cauldron battle by the Carthaginians under Hannibal, despite their numerical superiority. Almost 50,000 Romans are killed in battle.
1916: Due to the reorganization of the authority on the Russian front, the German General Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg takes over the entire section from the Baltic Sea to Brody in Galicia, whereby Austro-Hungarian units are also directly subordinate to him.
1926: “Warner Brothers” is presenting the “Vitaphon”, a system for synchronizing music and images, for the first time in New York.
1986: The alleged RAF terrorist Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is arrested with two companions in an ice cream parlor in Rüsselsheim.
1991: In large parts of Austria, there is flooding after extensive rainfall, and the situation only relaxes after a few days. Five people perish in the masses of water.
2006: After years of relative calm, civil war-like fighting flares up again in Sri Lanka and will escalate in the coming months.
Birthdays: Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer / conductor (1891-1975); Hans Hopf, German opera singer (1906-1993); Ruth Maria Kubitschek, German actress (1931); Jules A. Hoffmann, French biologist; Nobel Prize 2011 (1941).
Days of Death: Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (1873-1921); Fritz Lang, Eastern US film director (1890-1976); Ludwig Marcuse, German writer (1894-1971); Michel Debré, French politician (1912-1996); David Huddleston, US actor (1930-2016).
Name days: Stefan, Eusebius, Portiunkula, Alfons, Elfriede, Gustav, Gundaker, Serena, Adrienne, Rainer, Elias.
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