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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 18, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    90
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    138
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    139
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    242

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





more events on April 18

  • 1983

    A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.

  • 1980

    Zimbabwe’s (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain is proclaimed.

  • 1978

    The U.S. Senate approves the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama.

  • 1954

    Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.

  • 1950

    The first transatlantic jet passenger trip is completed.

  • 1949

    The Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth.

  • 1946

    The League of Nations dissolves.

  • 1943

    Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters.

  • 1942

    James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

  • 1940

    Ed Garvey, labor leader.

  • 1937

    Leon Trotsky calls for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

  • 1923

    Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.

  • 1918

    Clifton Keith Hillegass, founder of the study guides known as Cliff’s Notes.

  • 1906

    A massive earthquake hits San Francisco, measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale.

  • 1895

  • 1864

    Richard Harding Davis, journalist.

  • 1861

    Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to command the Union armies.

  • 1857

  • 1853

    The first train in Asia begins running from Bombay to Tanna.

  • 1847

    U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the Mexican-American War.

  • 1838

    The Wilkes’ expedition to the South Pole sets sail.

  • 1834

    William Lamb becomes prime minister of England.

  • 1818

    A regiment of Indians and blacks is defeated at the Battle of Suwannee, in Florida, ending the First Seminole War.

  • 1817

    George Henry Lewes, philosophical writer.

  • 1791

    National Guardsmen prevent Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris.

  • 1775

    American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that “the British are coming.”

  • 1676

    Sudbury, Massachusetts is attacked by Indians.

  • 1521

    Martin Luther confronts the emperor Charles V, refusing to retract the views which led to his excommunication.

  • 1480

    Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and a patron of the arts.

  • 310

    St. Eusebius of Vercelli begins his reign as Catholic Pope.