The name Pluto was officially adopted on May 1, 1930.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (; May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002 ) was a Dutch computer scientist.

Filming was finished in late May 1930 and premiered in July, setting a first week box office record at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by " Hergé ", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930.

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).

John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC (; born 21 May 1930 ) is a former Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia.

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He accepted a short-term contract for $ 100, 000 and arrived in Hollywood in May 1930.

Recorded May 28, 1930, in Grafton, Wisconsin, for Paramount Records.

In May 1930 the first science fiction fan magazine, The Comet, was produced by the Chicago branch of the Science Correspondence Club under the editorship of Raymond A. Palmer ( later a noted, and notorious, sf magazine editor ) and Walter Dennis.

* Grigory Naumovich Aronshtam ( 11 May 1928 – August 1930 )

* May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( d. 1930 )

* May 30 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in Latin American history.

* May 7 – Colin Blakely, Irish actor ( b. 1930 )

* May 21 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor ( b. 1930 )

* May 7 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1930 )

* May 7 – Tom Norman, English freak showman ( d. 1930 )

* May 21 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist ( b. 1930 )

* " Barnacle Bill, the Sailor " / " Rockin ' Chair ", with vocals by Carson Robison, recorded on May 21, 1930, in New York and released as Victor V-38139 and Victor 25371

Clinton " Clint " Eastwood, Jr. ( born May 31, 1930 ) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician.

Born on May 28, 1930 in Chicago, as a youth Drake loved electronics and chemistry.

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.

In May 1930, a petition was signed by 1, 028 economists in the U. S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taussig, and Clair Wilcox.

In May 1930, the greatest trading partner, Canada, retaliated by imposing new tariffs on 16 products that accounted altogether for around 30 % of U. S. exports to Canada.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Anti-Qing Dynasty revolutionaries, involved in the Xinhai Revolution, saw Western philosophy as an alternative to traditional philosophical schools ; students in the May Fourth Movement called for completely abolishing the old imperial institutions and practices of China.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

A joint venture between the Irish Rugby Football Union, the FAI and the Government, saw it replaced by a new state-of-the-art 50, 000 seat Aviva Stadium, which opened in May 2010.

Steamboat companies saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business and on May 6, 1856, just weeks after the bridge was completed, a steamboat captain deliberately crashed the Effie Afton into the bridge.

The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of " Space Oddity ", with light fare such as " Kooks ", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.

The student protests and general strike of May 1968 saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchist, and situationist slogans such as L ' ennui est contre-révolutionnaire (" Boredom is counterrevolutionary ") expressed in painted graffiti, poster art, and stencil art.

The student protests and general strike of May 1968 saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchist, and situationist slogans such as L ' ennui est contre-révolutionnaire (" Boredom is counterrevolutionary ") and Lisez moins, vivez plus (" Read less, live more ").

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

However, the terminal illness of Radek's lover, Larissa Reissner, saw Radek lose his inhibitions and he began publicly criticising Stalin, in particular debating Stalin's doctrine of Socialism in One Country at the Communist Academy Radek was sacked from his post at Sun Yat-Sen University in May 1927.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

Malawi saw its first transition between democratically elected presidents in May 2004, when the UDF's presidential candidate Bingu wa Mutharika defeated MCP candidate John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, who was backed by a grouping of opposition parties.

The County of Nice saw girls and boys " turn the May " with the sound of fife and drum, i. e. to dance rounds of May around the tree of May planted on the place of the village.

Pius XII's refusal to censure the German invasion and annexation of Poland was regarded as a " betrayal " by many Polish Catholics and clergy, who saw his appointment of Hilarius Breitinger as apostolic administrator for the Wartheland in May 1942 as " implicit recognition " of the breakup of Poland ; the opinions of the Volksdeutsche, mostly German Catholic minorities living in occupied Poland, were more mixed.

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

He saw no room for his experimental music and, in May, he headed for the USA.

Sondheim traces his interest in theatre to Very Warm for May, a Broadway musical he saw at age nine.

President Washington visited Charleston, South Carolina in May 1791 on his " Southern Tour ", and saw the under-construction Charleston County Courthouse designed by Irish architect James Hoban.