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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 March 25, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    343
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    298
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    219
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    65

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





more events on March 25

  • 1986

    President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters take Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.

  • 1981

    The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.

  • 1975

    Hue is lost and Da Nang is endangered by North Vietnamese forces. The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.

  • 1970

    The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

  • 1969

    John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.

  • 1965

    Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, Ala.

  • 1957

    The European Common Market Treaty is signed in Rome. The goal is to create a common market for all products–especially coal and steel.

  • 1954

    RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.

  • 1953

    The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.

  • 1942

    Aretha Franklin, American singer, the “Queen of Soul.”

  • 1941

  • 1940

    The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.

  • 1934

    Gloria Steinem, political activist, editor.

  • 1931

    Fifty people are killed in riots that break out in India. Mahatma Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.

  • 1925

    (Mary) Flannery O’Connor, novelist and short story writer.

  • 1919

    The Paris Peace Commission adopts a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.

  • 1915

    The first submarine disaster occurs when a U.S. F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast.

  • 1911

    A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a sweatshop in New York City, claims the lives of 146 workers.

  • 1908

    David Lean, British film director (Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia).

  • 1906

    Alan John Percivale Taylor, English historian.

  • 1905

    Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War are returned to the South.

  • 1879

    Japan invades the kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands, formerly a vassal of China.

  • 1868

    Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor.

  • 1867

    Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore.

  • 1865

    Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman, during the siege of Petersburg, Va.

  • 1839

    William Bell Wait, educator of the blind.

  • 1813

    The frigate USS Essex flies the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.

  • 1807

    British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.

  • 1797

    John Winebrenner, U.S. clergyman who founded the Church of God.

  • 1776

    The Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington.

  • 1767

    Joachim Murat, Napoleon‘s brother-in-law who became King of Naples in 1808.

  • 1668

    The first horse race in America takes place.

  • 1655

    Puritans jail Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.

  • 1634

    Lord Baltimore founds the Catholic colony of Maryland.

  • 708

    Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.