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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 June 13, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    69
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    342
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    47
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    318

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





more events on June 13

  • 1983

    Pioneer 10, already in space for 11 years, leaves the solar system.

  • 1979

    Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota.

  • 1978

    Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.

  • 1971

    The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.

  • 1949

    Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam.

  • 1944

    The first German V-1 buzz-bomb hits London.

  • 1943

    German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured.

  • 1940

    Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city.

  • 1923

    The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.

  • 1920

    The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post.

  • 1903

    Harold “Red” Grange, American football player.

  • 1894

    Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and educator.

  • 1893

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers, English detective writer, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey.

  • 1865

    William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist.

  • 1863

    Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia.

  • 1831

    James C. Maxwell, scientist.

  • 1786

    Winfield Scott, U.S. Army general.

  • 1777

    The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain.

  • 1752

    Fanny Burney, English writer.

  • 40

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general.