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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 24, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    2
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    244
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    21
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    362

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





more events on April 24

  • 1989

    Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms.

  • 1981

    The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.

  • 1980

    A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.

  • 1968

    Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War.

  • 1961

    President John Kennedy accepts “sole responsibility” for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

  • 1953

    Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

  • 1948

    The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city.

  • 1944

    The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.

  • 1916

    Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.

  • 1915

    Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.

  • 1906

    William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw,’ British traitor, Nazi propagandist.

  • 1905

    Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America’s first poet laureate.

  • 1904

    Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter.

  • 1900

    Elizabeth Goudge, English author.

  • 1898

    Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

  • 1884

    Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony.

  • 1877

    Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

  • 1856

    Henri Philippe Pétain, French Marshall, WWI hero, Nazi collaborator.

  • 1833

    A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.

  • 1815

    Anthony Trollope, British novelist.

  • 1805

    U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.

  • 1800

    The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

  • 1792

    Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes “La Marseillaise”. It will become France’s national anthem.

  • 1769

    Arthur Wellesley, general during the Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Wellington.

  • 1766

    Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer’s Almanac.

  • 1743

    Edmund Cartwright, English parson who invented the power loom.

  • 1620

    John Graunt, statistician, founder of demography.

  • 1558

    Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries the French dauphin, Francis.

  • 1547

    Charles V’s troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the Battle of Muhlberg.

  • 1519

    Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

  • 858

    St. Nicholas I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.