17 December 1967 December 16, 2012 Author: Staff The Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming and is assumed to have drowned. Famous Words of Inspiration..."The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." Robert Cushing — Click here for more from Robert Cushing Related posts: 17 December 1967 2 October 1967 20 October 1967 24 April 1967 12 April 1955 16 December 1972 Categories: History Tags: 17 December, 1967