Timeline May 1930

Events in May 1930 8

• 1861 – 1930 Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Died 13 May 1930, aged 68 Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat who crossed Greenland and led the Fram expedition toward the North Pole. As League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees he created the Nansen passport for stateless people. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
• 1861 – 1930 Fridtjof Nansen Arctic Explorer First man to cross Greenland and a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his refugee work.
• 1930 1930 World Snooker Championship Joe Davis Dominance Winner: Joe Davis; Runner-up: Tom Dennis. Score: 25–12.
• 1930 Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia First woman to fly solo from England to Australia Amy Johnson took off from Croydon in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth named Jason and landed in Darwin nineteen days later. She was the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. The flight made her an international celebrity.
• 1930 – 2025 George E. Smith (1930-2025) Died 28 May 2025, aged 95 American physicist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics for co-inventing the charge-coupled device, the sensor behind digital photography.
• 1930 First airline stewardess Ellen Church flies as the first female flight attendant Ellen Church, a registered nurse, became the first airline stewardess when she flew on a Boeing Air Transport flight from Oakland to Chicago. Airlines soon hired more women as flight attendants.
• 1930 – 2015 Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015) Died 20 March 2015, aged 84 Malcolm Fraser served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, coming to power after the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam's government by the Governor-General. His government pursued market-oriented economic reforms and multicultural immigration policy. Fraser later became a prominent critic of the major parties he had once led.
• 1930 Chrysler Building opens Art Deco skyscraper becomes the world's tallest building The Chrysler Building in Manhattan, designed by William Van Alen, opened to the public. Its spire made it the tallest building in the world until the Empire State Building was completed in 1931. It is still one of the best-known examples of Art Deco architecture.