November 27
2023: Former S.C. Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a Republican candidate for President of the United States, holds a rally at the USC Beaufort Recreation Center at the Bluffton campus.
November 28
2023: Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone, in a letter to S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, asks the Attorney General’s office to take over the misconduct and political corruption investigation into former Beaufort County Administrator Eric Greenway. At the time, the investigation was being conducted by the State Law Enforcement Division and the Public Integrity Unit, a team of prosecutors and investigators run jointly by the First and 14th Circuit Solicitors offices.
November 30
1772: Beaufort becomes the last of the backcountry courts, created by the General Assembly’s second Circuit Court Act in 1769, to begin to officially function following Camden and Orangeburg (Nov. 5); Cheraw and Ninety Six (Nov. 16); and Georgetown (Nov. 25).
December
Col. John Barnwell leads an expedition into modern-day North Carolina to quell an uprising of the Tuscarora Indians. He returned in June having earned the nickname “Tuscarora Jack.”
December 1
2022: Beaufort High School defeats Powdersville, 41-31, in Columbia to win the S.C. High School League Class 3A State Football Championship, the Eagles’ third title overall and first since 1945.
December 3
1981: Beaufort native Joe Frazier fights Floyd Cummings to a 10-round draw in Chicago. The bout would be the last for Frazier, who retired with a professional record of 32-4-1.
2015: Beaufort weightlifter Dade Stanley, 13, sets two Youth American records in the 69kg weight class at the USAW American Open at Grand Sierra resort in Reno, Nev. Stanley was 6-for-6 on his attempts, lifting 83kg in the Snatch, 105kg in the Clean & Jerk and a Total of 188kg. The Clean & Jerk and Total were American Youth Records.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs
