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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. His body was never recovered. [3]
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 ...
Image credits: Bob Reilly / flickr #5 Harold Holt. Known for being the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, Holt vanished without a trace on December 17, 1967, while swimming at Cheviot Beach ...
The body of one of the British hostages (Paul Wells) was found in 1997 (but not identified until 2000). ... Harold Holt. The prime minister of Australia went for a swim and disappeared off the ...
Harold Holt's (including his wife Dame Zara Bate) is a memorial, as his body was never recovered after he disappeared at sea. Dame Zara is buried at Sorrento Cemetery, the closest burial ground to where Holt disappeared. James Scullin (including Sarah Scullin) is buried in the Catholic section of the cemetery.
For more on this story, watch NBC's "Nightly News with Lester Holt" tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT. ... A year and a half later — after the body had been leased out a second time, to a ...
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.