June 26
1891: The first detachment of U.S. Marines comes to Parris Island when the U.S. Navy begins construction of a dry dock facility. First Sgt. Richard Donovan and 10 privates are charged with keeping order among the construction crew.
2019: Republican Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of The Citadel, announces she is joining the race for the 1st Congressional District seat held by Joe Cunningham.
June 27
2019: Capt. Anneliese Satz, USMC, becomes the first female Marine to complete the F-35B training at MCAS Beaufort.
2019: Beaufort weightlifter C.J. Cummings, 19, sets 15 records in the 73kg weight class at the Junior Pan-Am Games in Havana, Cuba. Cummings won gold in the Clean and Jerk and Overall categories and silver in the Snatch.
2016: Beaufort weightlifter C.J. Cummings, 16, wins the 69kg weight class at the IWF Junior World Championships in Tblisi, Georgia, becoming the first American to win Junior Worlds since two-time Olympian Oscar Chaplin III did it in 2000 in Prague, Czech Republic. Cummings also became the first American to break a youth world record, doing so three times. He first broke the youth world record with a 175kg clean and jerk, broke it again with a 180kg lift, and then claimed his third youth world record by lifting a total of 317kg.
June 29
1948: William D. “Billy” Keyserling is born in Beaufort to Dr. Ben Herbert and Harriet H. Keyserling. An aide to U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings, Keyserling represented Beaufort in the S.C. House in 1993-94. Eventually he would serve 12 years as the Mayor of The City of Beaufort.
2020: After an emergency meeting,Beaufort City Council enacted a mask requirement in all public buildings within the city limits in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
June 30
2019: Beaufort weightlifter Dade Stanley sweeps the 81kg weight class, winning three gold medals, at the USA Weightlifting Youth National Championships in Anaheim, Calif.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs
