Template:On this day/August 2

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 2:

• 1927 – The giant searchlight on the roof of the Monticello Hotel, "the largest one in the world", was tested for the first time between 8 and 9 o’clock this night. The huge beam from the 1,380,000,000 candle-power Jefferson Shaft of Light was used to brilliantly illuminate Jefferson’s home, Monticello, a point three miles away and which also served as the nation’s greatest aviation beacon light.
• 1975 – Charlottesville native Roosevelt "Rosie" Brown inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.