Senate Permanent Investigating Subcommittee holds a hearing in Boston.

Chaired by Se. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), the hearing is held at the Federal Building. Described as “the most tumultuous Congressional sessions ever held in Boston” by the Boston Globe the next day, it includes an incident in which Nathaniel Mills, a suspended General Electric Company employee, is ejected from the hearing room while shouting “you’re a menace” at McCarthy. Federal judge Charles Wyzanski, president of the Harvard Board of Overseers, is among those called to testify. As the hearings continue, McCarthy accuses Harvard professor Wendell Furry of involvement with the Communist Party on January 31, 1954.