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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] Holt's death spawned a storyline in the Australian soap opera Neighbours , and has also been credited with inspiring The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , a British ...
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 ...
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.
#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, Victoria, which sparked one of the ...
Harold Holt: 59 Portsea, Victoria, Australia Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria on 17 December 1967. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. [276] 1968 Eugene DeBruin: 34–35
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.
Pages in category "1960s missing person cases" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. ... Harold Holt; J. Disappearance of Reed Jeppson;
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.