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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 September 26, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    18
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    93
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    344
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    29

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





more events on September 26

  • 2008

    Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and inventor, is the first person to fly a jet-powered wing across the English Channel.

  • 1997

    Two earthquakes strike Italy, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis to collapse, killing four people and destroying much of the cycle of frescoes depicting the saint’s life.

  • 1984

    The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.

  • 1983

    In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers..

  • 1977

    Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border.

  • 1972

    Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.

  • 1969

    David Slade, director (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night).

  • The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.

  • 1967

    Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal.

  • 1961

    Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City.

  • 1960

    Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates.

  • 1955

    Carlene Carter, country-rock singer, songwriter, musician; daughter of June Carter, stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (“Keep It Out of Sight,” “Cool Reaction”).

  • The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.

  • 1953

    Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer; founding member of band De Dannan.

  • 1950

    General Douglas MacArthur‘s American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter.

  • 1949

    Jane Smiley, novelist (A Thousand Acres, Moo).

  • 1941

    The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps.

  • 1940

    During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps.

  • 1937

    Bessie Smith, known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ dies in a car crash in Mississippi.

  • 1918

    German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62.

  • 1914

    The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business.

  • 1913

    The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.

  • 1901

    Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death..

  • 1898

    George Gershwin, composer who wrote many popular songs for musicals, along with his brother Ira.

  • 1888

    T.S. Eliot, poet, critic, and dramatist whose work includes The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral.

  • 1887

    Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the “Bouncing Bombs” used to destroy German dams during World War II.

  • 1864

  • 1829

    Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.

  • 1826

    The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.

  • 1820

    The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.

  • 1786

    France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London.

  • 1783

    Jane Taylor, children’s writer best known as the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

  • Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American pioneer.

  • 1777

    The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia.

  • 1580

    Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumnavigate the globe.