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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 16, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    274
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    229
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    68
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    32

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





more events on June 16

  • 1977

    Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.

  • 1971

    An El Greco sketch, “The Immaculate Conception,” stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI.

  • 1961

    Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.

  • 1955

    The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959.

  • 1952

    Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.

  • 1940

    French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany.

  • 1938

    Joyce Carol Oates, American writer and university professor (Them, Garden of Earthly Delights).

  • Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer.

  • 1935

    Jim Dine, American artist.

  • President Franklin Roosevelt‘s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives.

  • 1932

    The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.

  • 1925

    France accepts a German proposal for a security pact.

  • 1920

    John Howard Griffin, writer (Black Like Me).

  • 1917

    Irving Penn, fashion photographer, brother of film director Arthur Penn.

  • Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post.

  • 1910

    The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

  • 1907

    The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg.

  • 1902

    George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist.

  • Barbara McClintock, geneticist.

  • 1890

    Stan Laurel, British-born entertainer, partner of Oliver Hardy.

  • 1888

    Bobby Clark, comedian and actor.

  • 1864

    The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish.

  • 1858

    Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

  • 1815

    Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny.

  • 455

    Rome is sacked by the Vandal army.