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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 August 03, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    261
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    279
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    176
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    3

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





more events on August 3

  • 2004

    Statue of Liberty’s pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

  • 1990

    The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

  • 1977

    Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the “1977 Trinity.” Its price and Radio Shack’s established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.

  • 1975

    The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.

  • 1972

    Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.

  • 1967

    President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.

  • 1958

    The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole.

  • 1945

    Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.

  • 1941

    Martha Stewart, business magnate and television personality.

  • 1926

    Tony Bennett, singer (“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”).

  • 1924

    Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus.

  • 1920

    P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), British mystery writer.

  • 1916

    Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.

  • 1914

  • 1911

    Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.

  • 1909

    Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Western novelist who wrote The Ox-Bow Incident.

  • 1908

    Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.

  • 1905

    Maggie Kuhn, social activist and founder of “The Gray Panthers.”

  • 1900

    Ernie Pyle, World War II correspondent who wrote about the common soldier.

  • 1887

    Rupert Brooke, English poet who mainly wrote about World War I.

  • 1882

    Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.

  • 1867

    Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926.

  • 1864

    Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.

  • 1807

    The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.

  • 1805

    Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt.

  • 1692

    French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.

  • 1610

    Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.

  • 1553

    Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.

  • 1546

    French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.

  • 1347

    Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.