Template:On this day/August 16

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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:

  • 1900 – Hutchins Franklin Inge, physician and first African American to serve in the New Jersey Senate, was born in Charlottesville.
  • 1927 – The Thomas Jefferson searchlight, said to be the most powerful beacon in the world at the time, was lit at 8 p.m., illuminating Monticello in honor of Jefferson’s legacy.
  • 1933 – Historian and author Dr. Philip Alexander Bruce died at his home on Rugby Road near the University of Virginia after an extended illness.
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