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Historical Events – May 1930
May 1 Planet Pluto offically named by 11
year-old Venetia Burney
May 1 Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st
f-class innings in Eng
May 2 Des Moines (Western League) defeats
Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
May 5 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly
solo from England to Australia
May 5 Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire,
317 mins, 16 fours
May 7 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v
Northants in 330 mins
May 9 55th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant
Fox wins in 2:00.6
May 9 John Masefield is appointed British Poet
Laureate by King George V
May 10 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
May 10 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v
Yorkshire at Sheffield
May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly
(Green Pastures)
May 13 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas;
only known fatality due to hail
May 15 Ellen Church becomes 1st female airline
stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
May 16 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
May 17 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard
Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
May 19 White women win voting rights in South
Africa
May 20 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible,
Charles Nicholson, pilot
May 20 University of California dedicates $1,500
to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
May 21 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a
doubleheader
May 21 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive
homers
May 22 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of
60 in 1930)
May 22 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14
HRs in a game
May 24 1st woman to fly from England to
Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
May 24 Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey,
290 mins, 29 fours
May 24 Ruth homers in both games of a
doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
May 26 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3
times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
May 26 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does
not violate the Constitution
May 27 Richard Drew invents masking tape
May 27 The 1,046-foot (319-meter)
ChryslerBuilding in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time,
opens to the public
May 28 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as
premier of New Zealand
May 30 Indianapolis 500: Bill Arnold wins (161.6
kph)
May 31 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the
English Cricket season
May 31 Building begins on Albert Canal in
Belgium
May 31 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3)
approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth