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What’s Your Vietnam War Draft Lottery Number?

The Vietnam War draft lottery ran from 1969 to 1972. If you were born on April 30, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    208
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    358
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    29
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    69

Read on to learn more about the Vietnam war draft lottery.





more events on April 30

  • 1980

    Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.

  • 1975

    North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.

  • 1973

    President Richard Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.

  • 1972

    The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.

  • 1970

    U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.

  • 1968

    U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.

  • 1954

    Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady).

  • 1945

    Annie Dillard, writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek).

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.

  • 1943

    The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.

  • 1933

    Willie Nelson, country singer.

  • 1931

    The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.

  • 1930

    The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.

  • 1912

    Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens), actress.

  • 1909

    Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands.

  • 1870

    Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles).

  • 1864

    Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks‘ troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.

  • 1858

    Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, First Lady to President Benjamin Harrison .

  • 1849

    Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome.

  • 1812

    Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.

  • 1803

    The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.

  • 1789

    George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.

  • 1777

    Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician.

  • 1725

    Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance.

  • 1563

    All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI.

  • 1527

    Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign the Treaty of Westminster.

  • 1250

    King Louis IX of France is ransomed.

  • 313

    Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule.