John Howard "Fat Jack" Fisher is an American retired professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1959 through 1969 for the Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Fisher was a member of the 1960's Baltimore Orioles Kiddie Korps.

1939Robert Shaye, American film producer^[†]

Robert Kenneth Shaye is an American businessman, film producer, actor, director, and writer. Shaye is the founder of New Line Cinema, a film production studio that was most successful for distributing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. He stepped down from New Line in 2008 after the studio was restructured as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Headlines from March 4, 1939

PRAYS FOR RULERS; Reads Into Microphone From Altar Set Up in Sistine Chapel HIS HABITS ARE UNCHANGED He Sleeps in Same Bed, Has a Frugal Breakfast and Then Plunges Into Day's Work

Text of the Pope's Appeal; TEXT OF THE PLEA FOR PEACE BY PIUS

NEW LABOR BOARD ASKED IN CONGRESS; 'Fair Play' Is Aim of Bills Filed by Barden and Backed by Green Would Reorganize Procedure NEW LABOR BOARD ASKED IN CONGRESS Industrial Peace is Asked Preference Left to Employer

BARS ARMS BUYERS TO GOLD FUND'S AID; Morgenthau at House Hearing Says Defense of Dollar Is Sole Stabilization Aim French Pay Cash for Planes BARS ARMS BUYERS TO GOLD FUND'S AID To Protect Dollar Sole Object As to Silver and Mexico Gold Redemption Bill by King

FATHER IS JAILED IN SCHOOL STRIKE; Defies Court's Order to Send Son to Class--Three Others Obey and Win Leniency

Notable Births