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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 06, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    114
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    251
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    155
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    208

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





more events on August 6

  • 2012

    New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897.

  • 1997

    Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in troubled rival Apple Computer, Inc.

  • 1993

    Pope John Paul II publishes “Veritatis splendor encyclical,” regarding fundamentals of the Catholic Church’s role in moral teachings.

  • 1991

    Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first-ever website, Info.cern.ch.

  • 1988

    A melee that became known as the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City leads to NYPD reforms.

  • 1981

    Argentina’s ex-president Isabel Peron is freed from house arrest.

  • 1979

    Twelve-year-old Marcus Hooper becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel.

  • 1973

    Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is in an automobile accident and goes into a four-day coma.

  • 1972

    Atlanta Braves’ right fielder Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise.

  • 1970

    M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American screenwriter, director and producer (The Sixth Sense, The Village).

  • 1965

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.

  • 1962

    Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule.

  • 1950

    Winston E. Scott, US Navy commander and astronaut.

  • 1945

    Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender.

  • 1942

    The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army.

  • 1934

    Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, science fiction and fantasy author (Xanth series).

  • 1927

    Andy Warhol, American pop artist.

  • A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder.

  • 1916

    Richard Hofstadter, historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

  • 1914

    Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Bright’s disease.

  • 1911

    Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian.

  • 1904

    The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria.

  • 1890

    William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed by the electric chair.

  • 1889

    Major General George Kenney, commander of the U.S. Fifth Air Force in New Guinea and the Solomons during World War II.

  • 1888

    Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England.

  • 1881

    Alexander Flemming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928.

  • 1863

    The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope.

  • 1809

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (1850), wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

  • 1497

    John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast.