Family tree Opperman » Leonardus Johannes Meijland (1894-1974)

Personal data Leonardus Johannes Meijland 

  • He was born on October 30, 1894 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.Source 1
  • He died on May 14, 1974 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 79 years old.Source 2
  • This information was last updated on August 20, 2025.

Household of Leonardus Johannes Meijland

He is married to Hendrika Johanna Jacoba Wolff.

They got married on December 27, 1946 at Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 52 years old.Source 3

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Historical events

Birthday October 30, 1894

  • The temperature on October 30, 1894 was about 9.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
    • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
    • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
    • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
    • November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
    • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Day of death May 14, 1974

  • The temperature on May 14, 1974 was between 9.2 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
    • February 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
    • March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
    • March 29 » NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
    • August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
    • September 12 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
    • September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1969 » Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1969 » Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
  • 1970 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer (b. 1884)
  • 1973 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher, and poet (b. 1905)
  • 1976 » Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)
  • 1979 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b. 1890)

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