About the day » Friday May 9, 1930Calender converter

• Dirkje Hartsema, Groningen, Groningen, GR, Netherlands († 2008)
• Dirk Dalhuisen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 1930)
• Dies Wijers, Hoog-Keppel († 2012)
• Adrie Klerkx († 1975)
• Betty Loraine Blank, Auglaize Co.Ohio († 2004)
• Antoinette Louisa Henriette Maria KWINTEN, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Enny Maria Meerding, Blaricum (NL) († 1948)
• Anna Maria Catharina Breukers, Hunsel († 1980)
• Albert Rodermond († 2002)
• doodgeboren kind van den Heuvel, Hilversum († 1930)

• Alberta Hendrina Janssen (67), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie DRUNEN, van (71), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Butin Bik (63), Meester Cornelis, Java, Nederlands-Indië
• Anthonie Johannes de Koning (17), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Marie Hug (17), Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, United States of America
• Alison Jane Smith (37), Queensland, Australia
• Betty Jean DURNING (6), Mercer, Mercer, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Snooij (55), Elft
• Alice Maude Dunham (57), Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
• Antonia Christina Snijders (71), Geertruidenberg

• 1926 » John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author († 2002)
• 1927 » Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1928 » Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater († 2012)
• 1928 » Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player († 1995)
• 1928 » Ralph Goings, American painter († 2016)
• 1930 » Joan Sims, English actress († 2001)
• 1930 » Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist († 2010)
• 1931 » Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1932 » Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer († 1999)
• 1934 » Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist

• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
• January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
• May 24 » 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).
• June 9 » A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• June 21 » One-year conscription comes into force in France.
• August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

The temperature on May 9, 1930 was between -0.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.