Template:On this day/August 16

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 16:

• 1927 – Radiating more than a billion and a third candlepower, the Thomas Jefferson searchlight, said to lie the most powerful beacon in the world, was turned on this night at 8 o’clock, when it bathed in a flood of brightness Monticello, the mountaintop home of the “author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia.’’
• 1900 – Hutchins Franklin Inge, an American physician and Democratic Party politician, was born in Charlottesville. He was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey Senate.
• 1933 – Dr. Philip Alexander Bruce, widely known historian, biographer and author, died at his home on Rugby Road, near the University, after an extended illness.