June 11
1562: Huguenot Jean Ribault leaves Charlesfort, and the 26 men occupying it on Parris Island in the Port Royal Sound, to return to France. The fort was occupied for less than a year.
June 12
2020: Bob Bender, local environmental activist and founder and curator of the Lowcounty Estuarium in Port Royal, dies at home of complications from throat surgeries.
June 14
2019: Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke visits Beaufort. At a roundtable discussion at Tabernacle Baptist Church, O’Rourke answers a diverse collection of questions, mostly posed by leaders of the Black community, including Queen Quet of the Gullah Geechee Nation and Rev. Kenneth Hodges.
June 15
1943: Naval Air Station Beaufort is commissioned for advanced training operations of anti-submarine patrols during World War II.
1976: Joe Frazier loses to George Foreman by TKO in an NABF heavyweight title fight in Hempstead, New York. It would be Frazier’s last fight for more than 5 years.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs