July 30
2020: City of Beaufort Deputy Police Chief Dale McDorman is named interim Police Chief after the death of longtime Chief Matt Clancy.
July 31
1844: At a dinner in Bluffton in St. Luke’s Parish, Robert Barnwell Rhett launches the Bluffton Movement for a state convention and separatist action in response to the Tariff of 1842 after John C. Calhoun’s failure to secure the presidential nomination.
August 1
2021: Beaufort-based weightlifter Mahassen Hala Fattouh competes for Lebanon in the Women’s 76-kilogram weight class at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Fattouh completed five of her six lifts for a personal-record total of 217 kg. Fattouh, the first female weightlifter to represent Lebanon in the Olympic Games, finished ninth.
August 5
2021: Beaufort’sKazoobie Kazoos, one of just two kazoo factories in the United States, holds a grand opening for its remodeled Kazoo Museum, which highlights the history of the kazoo and features, among other things, a U.S. flag made from 3,000 plastic kazoos.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs