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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 July 20, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    187
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    120
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    95
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    33

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





more events on July 20

  • 1976

    The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples.

  • 1969

    Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon.

  • 1951

    King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated.

  • 1950

    The U.S. Army’s Task Force Smith is pushed back by superior North Korean forces.

  • 1944

    Adolf Hitler is wounded in an assassination attempt by German Army officers at Rastenburg.

  • 1942

    The U.S. Army Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) begins its first training class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

  • 1939

    Judy Chicago, artist.

  • 1933

    Cormac McCarthy, novelist (All the Pretty Horses).

  • 1919

    Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer.

  • 1917

    Alexander Kerensky becomes the premier of Russia.

  • 1881

    Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army.

  • 1867

    Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels.

  • 1864

  • 1850

    John Graves Shedd, president of Marshall Field and Company.

  • 1715

    The Riot Act goes into effect in England.

  • 1591

    Anne Hutchinson, religious liberal, one of the founders of Rhode Island.

  • 1588

    The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna.

  • 1402

    Tamerlane’s Mongols defeat the Ottoman Turks at Angora.

  • 1304

    Francisco Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar.