Melbourne lawyer Harold Holt had become Australia’s…
1967 CE
Melbourne lawyer Harold Holt had become Australia’s prime minister in January, 1966.
Holt backs up the United States with Australian troops in the Vietnam War, improves relations with China, relaxes some restrictions on Asian immigration and decimalizes Australian currency.
He disappears on December 17, 1967, while swimming in the ocean.
Sir John McEwen becomes prime minister during the brief interregnum that follows.
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