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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 April 01, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    32
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    224
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    96
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    12

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





more events on April 1

  • 1982

    The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.

  • 1970

    The U.S. Army charges Captain Ernest Medina for his role in the My Lai massacre.

  • 1968

    The U.S. Army launches Operation Pegasus, the reopening of a land route to the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base.

  • 1954

    The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.

  • 1951

    United Nations forces again move northward across the 38th Parallel in Korea.

  • 1948

    The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.

  • 1946

    A miner’s strike in the U.S. idles 400,000 workers.

  • 1945

  • 1942

    The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic.

  • 1939

    The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco’s government.

  • 1929

    Milan Kundera, Czech writer (The Farewell Party, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).

  • The yo-yo is introduced in the United States by Louie Marx.

  • 1928

    China’s Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists.

  • 1924

    Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the “Beer Hall Putsch.”

  • 1920

    Germany’s Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis).

  • 1919

    Joseph E. Murray, transplant physician.

  • 1918

    England’s Royal Air Force is formed.

  • 1905

    Berlin and Paris are linked by telephone.

  • 1895

    Alberta Hunter, blues singer.

  • 1883

    William Manchester, U.S. historian and biographer.

  • Lon Chaney, film actor.

  • 1868

    Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (Cyrano de Bergerac).

  • The Hampton Institute is founded in Hampton, Va.

  • 1865

    At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.

  • 1863

    The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the United States.

  • 1815

    Otto Von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany.

  • 1778

    Oliver Pollock, creates the dollar sign.

  • 1578

    William Harvey, English physician and biologist.

  • 1572

    The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck land in Holland and capture the small town of Briel.