page_title: March 1967
section_title: March 11, 1967 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1967 / March 11, 1967 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Brown Bear
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1967:
context_section_description: The first list of endangered species was issued by Stewart Udall, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior with a total of 78 animals in the U.S. that were threatened with extinction.  The list contained 14 mammals (including the grizzly bear, the red wolf, and the Florida manatee); 36 birds (including the Southern bald eagle, the California condor, and the ivory-billed woodpecker; three reptiles (including the American alligator); three amphibians (including the black toad), and 22 fishes (including the blue walleye and five varieties of trout).  Animals on the list that would become extinct after 1967 were the dusky seaside sparrow, the longjaw cisco and the Maryland darter.
  The AGM-62 Walleye bomb, which had a television camera and could be guided to its target after being released, was used for the first time in combat, with the U.S. Navy making an attack on the Sam Son barracks of the North Vietnamese Army.
  The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War began between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
  Born: 
  John Barrowman, Scottish-born American stage actor, in Glasgow
  George Gray, American game show host, in Ballwin, Missouri
  Died: Geraldine Farrar, 85, American soprano, actress and star of opera and film
caption: Endangered
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