Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Holt's death has entered Australian folklore, and is frequently the subject of black humour. [58] Travel writer Bill Bryson labelled it "the swim that needed no towel". [59] Holt's name has become a byword for any sudden or unexplained disappearance; the phrase "to do a Harold Holt" is rhyming slang for "to bolt" (i.e., to make a quick exit). [60]
Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967.
A leadership election in the Liberal Party of Australia, the party of government in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 9 January 1968.It followed the disappearance and presumed drowning of previous leader Harold Holt, who had been declared dead on 19 December 1967.
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 Holt, serving Prime Minister of Australia, ... Initially, the cause of her death was known as a heart attack, but it was later confirmed to be drowning. It is ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Dickerson had a suspect in mind soon after her daughter’s death. She said that a few weeks after Holt was found, her grandson told her that he had witnessed the 29-year-old fighting with her ...
Treasurer Harold Holt, the party's deputy leader since 1956, was elected unopposed. [3] According to Holt's biographer, Tom Frame , "the change of Liberal Party leadership was achieved with remarkable ease and without any destabilising lobbying [...] there were not discontented rivals to provoke either ministerial resistance or backbench revolt".