17 December 1967 December 16, 2011 Author: Staff The Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is assumed to have drowned. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it." C.S. Lewis — Click here for more from C.S. Lewis Related posts: 2 October 1967 20 October 1967 Categories: History Tags: 17 December, 1967