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Events on Thursday 2 May 1957 1
1908 – 1957Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)Died 2 May 1957, aged 48American senator whose unsubstantiated accusations of communist infiltration in government fueled the anti-communist hysteria known as McCarthyism in the early 1950s. He died of complications related to alcoholism.