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The following events occurred in May 1930:

May 1, 1930 (Thursday)

  • 18 were killed in a series of tornadoes that swept the Midwestern United States.[1]
  • President Hoover told a gathering of American businessmen in Washington that "I am convinced that we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover."[2]

May 2, 1930 (Friday)

  • New York Police Commissioner Grover Whalen publicized a series of letters which he said were evidence of the Communist International financing riots and strikes in the United States. Amtorg Trading Corporation chairman Peter Bogdanov released a statement saying the letters alleged to have been written by an Amtorg official were forgeries.[3][4]
  • Canada introduced the Dunning Tariff, the country's most drastic tariff revision since 1907, raising duties on American goods while giving preferential treatment to British goods.[5]
  • Died: Isidor Gunsberg, 75, Austro-Hungarian chess player

May 3, 1930 (Saturday)

May 4, 1930 (Sunday)

May 5, 1930 (Monday)

May 6, 1930 (Tuesday)

  • A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Salmas, Persia, resulting in an estimated 2,500 deaths.[12]
  • Outbursts of rioting around India in reaction to the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi killed about 20 people.[13]
  • The all-metal Boeing Monomail plane had its first flight.[14]
  • Japan capitulated to Chinese boycotts of Japanese goods by signing a tariff agreement with China.[5]
  • Died: Charles Sidney Gilpin, 51, American actor

May 7, 1930 (Wednesday)

May 8, 1930 (Thursday)

May 9, 1930 (Friday)

  • A mob in Sherman, Texas, burned down a courthouse during the trial of African-American man George Hughes, who was accused of assaulting his boss' wife, a white woman. The mob attacked the courthouse vault, retrieved the dead body of Hughes, dragged it behind an automobile and hanged it from a tree. National Guard troops were sent to Sherman to restore order as the mob looted stores in the black business district.[18][19][20]
  • Gallant Fox won the Preakness Stakes horse race.[21]
  • Born: Joan Sims, actress, in Laindon, England (d. 2001)

May 10, 1930 (Saturday)

May 11, 1930 (Sunday)

  • New York Police Commissioner Whalen issued a report saying that the city's violent crime in 1929 went down 11% from 1928, although the number of murders increased from 339 to 357.[23]
  • Born: Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist, in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2002); Bud Ekins, stuntman, in Hollywood, California (d. 2007)

May 12, 1930 (Monday)

  • Abbas Tyabji, the acting leader of the Indian civil disobedience movement since the arrest of Gandhi, was himself arrested in Navsari along with all his immediate followers.[24]
  • Adler Planetarium, founded by businessman Max Adler, opened to the public in Chicago.[25]

May 13, 1930 (Tuesday)

May 14, 1930 (Wednesday)

May 15, 1930 (Thursday)

May 16, 1930 (Friday)

May 17, 1930 (Saturday)

May 18, 1930 (Sunday)

  • The Austrian Heimwehr declared their opposition to democracy and support for a dictatorship at their annual meeting.[33][34]

May 19, 1930 (Monday)

  • Servants joined the Indian civil disobedience movement by refusing to provide services to anyone wearing foreign-made fabrics.[35]
  • White women in South Africa were given the right to vote.[36]
  • Born: Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and writer, in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1965)

May 20, 1930 (Tuesday)

May 21, 1930 (Wednesday)

  • Sarojini Naidu was arrested at Dharasana.[38]
  • An interview was published between British journalist George Slocombe and Mahatma Gandhi conducted in Yerwada Central Jail, Gandhi's first interview since his imprisonment. Gandhi clarified the conditions to be met before the civil disobedience campaign would be called off, said he was alarmed by the reports of violence and expressed optimism about the movement's future. "In forty years of struggle I have been frequently been told that I was attempting the impossible, but invariably I have proved the contrary", he said.[39][40]
  • Born: Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, in Toorak, Victoria, Australia (d. 2015)

May 22, 1930 (Thursday)

May 23, 1930 (Friday)

  • The Literary Digest, an influential American magazine, published the results of its nationwide poll on Prohibition in which over 4.8 million opinions were recorded. 40% favored outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, 29% voted to have the law modified, and 30% wanted the existing law maintained. Prohibition was most strongly favored in the state of Kansas, while Nevada was the "wettest" state.[42]
  • The German war film Westfront 1918 premiered at the Capitol Theatre in Berlin.[43]

May 24, 1930 (Saturday)

  • English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Port Darwin, Australia and became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.[44]
  • Muslim leaders in India issued a statement calling on Muslims to join the independence movement, which had been chiefly a Hindu-led campaign up to this point.[45]
  • Police in Düsseldorf apprehended the serial killer Peter Kürten.[46]

May 25, 1930 (Sunday)

May 26, 1930 (Monday)

May 27, 1930 (Tuesday)

May 28, 1930 (Wednesday)

May 29, 1930 (Thursday)

May 30, 1930 (Friday)

May 31, 1930 (Saturday)

  • Italian finance minister Antonio Mosconi announced a budget deficit for the year ending April 30, the country's first deficit since the Fascists came to power. Mosconi maintained that the difficult economic conditions in Italy were the result of general conditions throughout the world.[58]
  • Joseph Goebbels was fined 800 Reichsmarks for libeling President Paul von Hindenburg in an article published in the December 29, 1929, issue of Der Angriff. Goebbels defended himself confidently in court and wrote in his diary afterward that the whole trial had been "brilliant propaganda for us."[59][60]
  • The Brazilian football club Esporte Clube Siderúrgica was founded.
  • Born: Clint Eastwood, actor, filmmaker and politician, in San Francisco, California; Paul L. Maier, American historian and novelist
  • Died: Gaspar Milazzo, 43, Italian-born American mobster (assassinated)

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  2. ^ Crawford, Arthur (May 2, 1930). "Hoover Hails Revival of Business". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  3. ^ "Seized Letters Bare Soviet Plot – Whalen; Forged Say Russians". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 2, 1930. p. 1.
  4. ^ "Whalen Finds Red Plot, but Reds Call Document False". Chicago Daily Tribune: 6. May 3, 1930.
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  22. ^ "Martial Law on in Sherman; Fear New Riot". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 11, 1930. p. 1.
  23. ^ "New York Murders Increasin, Whalen Admits in 'Red Book'". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 12, 1930. p. 5.
  24. ^ "New Riot Flares in India; British Troops Called". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 12, 1930. p. 8.
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  32. ^ "Briand Asks 26 Nations to Join U.S. of Europe". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 18, 1930. p. 1.
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