1915 Arthur Miller – US playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge, It Takes a Thief, The Misfits)

I understand he wrote The Misfits especially for his wife at the time, Marilyn Monroe, which was the last movie she finished before her death.

1943 In the face of mounting opposition to communism and the Soviet Union in US society, the Young Communist League declared itself dissolved at a special convention held in New York City. In an about turn, the four hundred delegates organised American Youth for Democracy, which only offered membership to non-Communists. During the 1940s, US Communist groups that once enjoyed prominence in labour organisations and other groups, suddenly found themselves alienated from society, and most publicly abandoned their ideology and Soviet connections in order to avoid being blacklisted

And look at us now.