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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 May 23, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    319
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    222
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    197
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    216

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





more events on May 23

  • 1960

    Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

  • 1949

    The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.

  • 1947

    Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).

  • 1945

    Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.

  • 1934

    Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.

  • Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.

  • 1928

    Rosemary Clooney, singer.

  • 1920

    Helen O’Connell, big band vocalist.

  • 1915

    Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

  • 1910

    Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.

  • 1908

    John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.

  • 1900

    Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.

  • 1891

    Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).

  • 1875

    Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.

  • 1864

    Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.

  • 1862

    Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.

  • 1861

    Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.

  • 1820

    James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis

  • 1810

    Margaret Fuller, writer and critic.

  • 1788

    South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

  • 1785

    Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.

  • 1734

    Friedrich Anton Mesmer, physician and hypnotist.

  • 1707

    Carl Linnaeus [Carl von Linné], Swedish botanist.

  • 1701

    Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.

  • 1618

    The Thirty Years War begins.

  • 1533

    Henry VIII‘s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

  • 1430

    Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.