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1965: During a visit to Augusta National, former President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized at Fort Gordon Army Hospital. A few weeks later he will be transferred to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, DC
Clifford Roberts, in his book The Story of the Augusta National Golf Club, said that the former president and his wife had gone to Aiken for a private dinner with old friends and then returned to their golf club residence.
Sometime after midnight, Eisenhower began to suffer from chest pains and several doctors from Augusta, some members of the club, were called.
Roberts also recognized Augusta’s St. Joseph Hospital, which quickly loaned Fort Gordon a heart rate monitor-defibrillator, which is said to be the only one in the area.
“It may have been the means of saving General Ike’s life,” Roberts wrote.
1988: Secretary of State George Schulz arrives to play at Augusta National. Member of the private golf club, he is said to pay his own travel expenses for his visits.
1942: Tom Weiskopf, the sixteen-time Masters contestant, was born in Massilon, Ohio. Although he would never win the Augsburg tournament, he finished second four times and was in the top 10 seven times.
He won the British Open in 1973.
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