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On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the 17th prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. Holt was presumed to have drowned, and his memorial service five days later was attended by many world leaders.
It was the site of the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt; on 17 December 1967, Holt went swimming at the beach, disappeared, and was presumed drowned. He was last seen in the ocean and was then dragged under a wave, never to be seen again.
Harold and Zara Holt meeting with Harold and Mary Wilson in 1967. Holt was a strong supporter of the Commonwealth of Nations, and believed its member states had moral obligations to one another – particularly Britain, as the former "mother country". [105] However, his relationship with Harold Wilson, the British prime minister, was somewhat ...
Holt’s death has been attributed to drowning, and he was later commemorated with the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre. Image credits: Bettmann / gettyimages #6 Barbara Newhall Follett
Harold Holt, serving Prime Minister of Australia, presumed to have drowned on 17 December 1967. [ 52 ] Brian Jones (born 1942), original guitarist of The Rolling Stones, drowned in Hartfield, Sussex , England, in his own swimming pool on 3 July 1969.
Harold Holt: 59 Cheviot Beach, Australia Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at a beach notorious for strong and dangerous rip currents. Despite one of the largest search-and-rescue operations ever mounted in Australia, his body was never found.
Fraudster Donald McPherson was cleared of the murder of his wife Paula Leeson who died in 2017.
The book's premise is that Harold Holt, prime minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967, was a lifelong spy for the Chinese government, under both the Nationalist and Communist regimes. Its most famous claim is that Holt faked his own death ; specifically, rather than drowning, he boarded a Chinese submarine stationed off the Australian coast and ...