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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 August 05, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    54
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    64
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    63
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    63

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





more events on August 5

  • 2012

    A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide.

  • 1997

    The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial.

  • 1995

    Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm.

  • 1992

    Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King.

  • 1981

    President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.

  • 1975

    Ami Foster, television actress (Punky Brewster); nominated eight times for Young Actress Award.

  • 1974

    President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons.

  • 1964

    President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam.

  • 1962

    Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances.

  • 1951

    The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.

  • 1941

    The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.

  • 1930

    Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

  • 1923

    Richard G. Kleindienst, one of the key officials who helped elect Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1969.

  • 1921

    Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

  • 1916

    The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.

  • 1915

    The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front.

  • 1914

    The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio.

  • The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I.

  • 1908

    Miriam Rothschild, English scientist and writer.

  • 1906

    John Houston, film director of such movies as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon.

  • 1892

    Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.

  • 1876

    Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and writer.

  • 1864

    The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama.

  • 1861

    Congress adopts the nation’s first income tax to finance the Civil War.

  • 1858

    The first transatlantic cable is completed.

  • 1850

    Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and author of “The Necklace.”

  • 1815

    A peace treaty with Tripoli–which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis–brings an end to the Barbary Wars.

  • 1763

    Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac‘s rebellion.

  • 1762

    Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland.

  • 1391

    Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews.