Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 17
Francis Grose
1794
– Acting
Governor of New South Wales
Francis Grose
leaves
New South Wales
for England.
1927
– Batsman
Bill Ponsford
scores
437
for Victoria against Queensland at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground
.
1967
–
Prime Minister
Harold Holt
goes swimming at
Cheviot Beach
on
Point Nepean, Victoria
and is never seen again.
1980
– Two gunmen kill Turkish Consul-General
Mehmet Baydar
in Sydney, the killers were never apprehended.