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Arnold Schwarzenegger, known as the Austrian Oak, won the Mr. World Professional Body Building Contest at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in September 1970 and won another 13 world bodybuilding championships. He gained worldwide fame as an action film star, was a businessman, investor, author, and served as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. He was elected the 38th governor of California, serving from 2003 until 2011. In 1976 he founded what would become the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio.
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