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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 October 21, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    243
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    5
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    282
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    288

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





more events on October 21

  • 1994

    North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections.

  • 1983

    The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.

  • 1979

    Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policies related to the Palestinians.

  • 1969

    Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain; presently (2013) First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander, he is heir apparent to the Bahrain kingdom.

  • 1967

    The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.

  • 1961

    Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400.

  • 1959

    The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan.

  • 1956

    Carrie Fisher, actress, author, screenwriter; best known as Prince Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and he bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.

  • 1952

    Patti Davis, actress, author; daughter of former US Pres. Ronald Reagan.

  • 1950

    Ronald McNair, astronaut; died when Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch on Jan. 2, 1986.

  • North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung.

  • 1942

    Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings.

  • 1940

    Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

  • 1939

    As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London.

  • 1938

    Carl Brewer, Canadian hockey player; won three Stanley Cups (1962-64) as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

  • 1929

    Ursula K. Le Guin, science fiction writer (The Left Hand of Darkness)

  • 1917

    Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter.

  • The first U.S. troops enter the front lines at Sommerviller under French command.

  • 1904

    Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising.

  • 1879

    After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight.

  • 1872

    The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted.

  • 1867

    Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms.

  • 1861

    The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations.

  • 1837

    Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida.

  • 1833

    Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes.

  • 1805

    Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally wounded in the battle, but lives long enough to see victory.

  • 1790

    The Tricolor is chosen as the official flag of France.

  • 1772

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan”).

  • 1760

    Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese printmaker.

  • 1600

    Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan’s most powerful warlord.

  • 1529

    The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther.

  • 1096

    Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders.