The U.S. Senate voted 45-37 to accept a report by the Tydings Committee (chaired by U.S. Senator Millard Tydings; the report denounced accusations of Communist infiltration in the federal government, made by Senator U.S. Joseph McCarthy, and all of those in favor were Democrats, all against were Republicans [REF].
Born: Bill Schroeder, one of four American college students killed in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970; in Cincinnati .