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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 January 14, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    238
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    71
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    285
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    341

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





more events on January 14

  • 2011

    Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.

  • 2010

    Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda terrorist group.

  • 2005

    Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.

  • 2004

    The Republic of Georgia restores the “five cross flag” as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse.

  • 2000

    UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.

  • 1980

    The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.

  • 1969

    A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured.

  • 1968

    LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), influential rapper (“I’m Bad”); actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV series).

  • 1952

    Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, author; won Pulitzer Prize for her series on the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton administration.

  • 1948

    T Bone Burnett (Joseph Henry Burnett), musician, songwriter, Grammy-winning producer (O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack).

  • 1947

    Taylor Branch, author, historian; best known for his America in the King Years trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • 1944

    Nina Totenberg, journalist; legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.

  • 1943

    Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.

  • Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.

  • 1942

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.

  • 1940

    Julian Bond, civil rights leader and Georgia state senator.

  • 1920

    Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.

  • 1919

    Andy Rooney, American humorist, author and television personality (60 Minutes).

  • 1917

    A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland.

  • 1916

    British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen’s financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S.

  • 1915

    The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.

  • 1911

    The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.

  • 1875

    Dr. Albert Schweitzer, French theologian who set up a native hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913.

  • 1864

    Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.

  • 1858

    Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera.

  • 1797

    Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.

  • 1741

    Benedict Arnold, American colonial General turned traitor.

  • 1730

    William Whipple, signatory of Declaration of Independence.

  • 1526

    Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.

  • 1236

    Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence.