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2019: California Senator Kamala Harris, a Democratic candidate for President, holds a town hall meeting at USC Beaufort’s Bluffton Campus. The meeting was originally set to take place at USC Beaufort’s Center For The Arts in Beaufort but was moved because of the rally’s estimated size.

October 8

1772: Gov. Charles Montague calls the General Assembly to meet Oct. 8-10 in Beaufort in an effort to control the body once it was removed from the influence of Charlestown Patriots. This act would be referenced in the list of indictments of the Crown by the Patriots in the Declaration of Independence: “He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.”

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