Rio 2016: Heat to build into early week. After rain caused several rounds of delays and postponements during the first week of the Summer Games, building heat could make for uncomfortable conditions into early this week. August is known for several notable, destructive hurricanes in the United States.
Jean-Thomas Ungerer, aka Tomi, is born in Strasbourg on November 28, the son of Alice (nee Essler) and artist, historian, engineer and astronomical clock manufacturer Theodore.aschen publishes Erotoscope, a large collection of his erotic work to commemorate his 70th birthday. He has an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg entitled Tomi Ungerer et New York. Le Nuage Bleue is made into an animated film.
Arp was born in Strasbourg, the son of a French mother and a German father, during the period following the Franco-Prussian War when the area was known as Alsace-Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen in German) after France had ceded it to Germany in 1871.rp and his first wife, the artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, became French nationals in 1926. In the 1930s, they bought a piece of land in Clamart and built a house at the edge of a forest. Influenced by the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, Taeuber designed it.