first person in United States to test an ejection seat. "To Each His Own" by Eddy Howard hit #1 on the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits. August 18, 1946 (Sunday) The All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which would later bring the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns to the NFL, made its debut with an exhibition game in Portland, Oregon. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Rockets played to a 14–14 tie. The first regular season AAFC game would take place on September 6. The explosion of a pile of undefused sea mines killed 70 people on a beach at the seaside resort of Pula, formerly under the control of Italy and now part of Croatia. August 19, 1946 (Monday) An American C-47 transport plane was shot down after straying into the airspace of Yugoslavia, a week after another group of American flyers had been captured. All five men aboard the plane were killed in the crash. Born: Bill Clinton, impeached 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001), as William Jefferson Blythe III, at 8:51 a.m. in Hope, Arkansas Charles F. Bolden Jr., American space shuttle astronaut, and NASA administrator from 2009 to 2017; in Columbia, South Carolina Dawn Steel, 20th-century American film producer and the first woman to serve as president of a major U.S. film studio (as president of Columbia Pictures from 1987 to 1990); in The Bronx, New York City (d. 1997) Christopher Malcolm, Scottish stage, television and film actor; in Aberdeen (d. 2014) Masoud Behnoud, Iranian investigative reporter and author; in Tehran August 20, 1946 (Tuesday) Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians became the first Major League Baseball pitcher to have the speed of his throw measured by radar, with a U.S. Army "lumiline chronograph" clocking him at 98.6 mph at a game in Washington, D.C. against the Senators. Feller's Indians lost, 5–4. The Pittsburgh Pirates voted against joining a labor union, the American Baseball Guild. The election was conducted by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, and only 19 of the 31 eligible players participated. With one vote invalidated, the margin was 15–3 against unionizing. In 1965, the Major League Baseball Players Association would be created for members of all of the MLB teams. Born: N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman and founder of Infosys Technologies, in Mysore Connie Chung, American news anchor, as Constance Yu-Hwa Chung in Washington, D.C Ralf Hütter, German techno singer and