By Mona Hatfield
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, politician, and retired professional bodybuilder best known for his roles in high-profile action movies. He served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and was among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007.
Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at age 15 and won the Mr. Universe title aged 20, and subsequently the Mr. Olympia title seven times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, and has written many books and articles about it. The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977). He retired from bodybuilding and gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star, with his breakthrough in the sword and sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian (1982), a box-office hit with a sequel in 1984. After playing the title character in the science fiction film The Terminator (1984), he starred in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and three other sequels. His other successful action films included Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Total Recall (1990), and True Lies (1994), in addition to comedy films such as Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Jingle All the Way (1996).[13] He is the founder of the film production company Oak Productions.
As a registered Republican, Schwarzenegger chaired the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports during most of the George H. W. Bush administration. On October 7, 2003, he was elected Governor of California in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. He received 48.6% of the vote, 17 points ahead of Democrat runner-up Cruz Bustamante. He was sworn in on November 17 to serve the remainder of Davis’ term, and was reelected in the 2006 California gubernatorial election with an increased vote share of 55.9% to serve a full term. In 2011 he reached his term limit as governor and returned to acting.
Schwarzenegger was nicknamed the “Austrian Oak” in his bodybuilding days, “Arnie” or “Schwarzy” during his acting career, and “the Governator” (a portmanteau of “Governor” and “Terminator”) during his political career. He married Maria Shriver, a niece of President John F. Kennedy, in 1986. They separated in 2011 after he admitted to having fathered a child with their housemaid in 1997; their divorce was finalized in 2021.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Giorgio Vasari (artist) –
- Emily Brontë (novelist) –
- Henry Ford (industrialist) –
- Robert Rutherford McCormick (newspaper editor) –
- Casey Stengel (baseball player) –
- Henry Moore (sculptor) –
- Paul Anka (singer) –
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor & politician) –
- Delta Burke (actress) –
- Kate Bush (singer) –
- Laurence Fishburne (actor) –
- Alton Brown (television host) –
- Lisa Kudrow (actress) –
- Vivica A. Fox (actress) –
- Tom Green (actor & comedian) –
- Christine Taylor (actress) –
- Hilary Swank (actress) –
Died
- Lynn Fontanne (actress) –
- Lane Frost (bull rider) –
- Buffalo Bob Smith (actor and puppeteer, best known for Howdy Doody) –
- Sam Phillips (rock’n’roll pioneer, Sun Records founder, and the man who discovered Elvis and also launched the careers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King) –
- Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker) –
- Michelangelo Antonioni (director) –
- Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) –
Events
- Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was first to observe what we now know are Saturn’s rings–
- First legislative assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, convened at Jamestown, VA–
- Caspar Wistar began operation of the first successful glass factory in America, in Allowaystown, New Jersey–
- Malden Island was discovered–
- Hawaii’s first English-language newspaper published–
- New York Yacht Club founded–
- The Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era, opened–
- Japanese warships sank the USS Indianapolis, killing over 800 seamen (WW II)–
- Elvis Presley made his debut performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, TN–
- Mister Roberts premiered–
- President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs–
- Apollo 15 landed on the Moon–
- Jake, a 65-pound golden retriever, was the only non-human in the 10th annual 1.25-mile swim from Alcatraz island to the San Francisco shore. The 4-year-old dog swam across the water in just under 42 minutes, finishing 72nd out of the more than 500 swimmers. Organizers say it was the first known crossing by a dog–
- In Bethel, Maine, the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall) melted completely–
Weather
- During Tropical Storm Brenda, 4.5 inches of rain fell in 11 hours on New York City–
- 107 degrees F in Portland, Oregon–
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