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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 15, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    102
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    270
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    20
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    241

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





more events on August 15

  • 2007

    An earthquake of 8.0 magnitude kills over 500 and injures more than 1,000 in Peru.

  • 2001

    Astronomers announce the first solar system discovered outside our own; two planets had been found orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.

  • 1994

    Infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal captured in Khartoum, Sudan.

  • US Social Security Administration, previously part of the Department of Health and Human Services, becomes an independent government agency.

  • 1986

    Ignoring objections from President Ronald Reagan‘s Administration, US Senate approves economic sanctions against South Africa to protest that country’s apartheid policies.

  • 1971

    US President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in an attempt to halt rapid inflation.

  • 1969

    Over 400,000 young people attend a weekend of rock music at Woodstock, New York.

  • 1965

    Rob Thomas, television writer (Veronica Mars, 90210).

  • 1964

    Melinda French Gates, businesswoman, philanthropist; co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband, Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft).

  • 1961

    Ed Gilllespie, US Republican political strategist and White House counsel to President George W. Bush.

  • 1950

    Two U.S. divisions are badly mauled by the North Korean Army at the Battle of the Bowling Alley in South Korea, which rages on for five more days.

  • 1947

    Britain grants independence to India and Pakistan.

  • 1946

    Jimmy Webb, songwriter (“MacArthur Park,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”).

  • 1945

    Gasoline and fuel oil rationing ends in the United States.

  • 1944

    American, British and French forces land on the southern coast of France, between Toulon and Cannes, in Operation Dragoon.

  • 1942

    The Japanese submarine I-25 departs Japan with a floatplane in its hold which will be assembled upon arriving off the West Coast of the United States, and used to bomb U.S. forests.

  • 1938

    Stephen Breyer, US Supreme Court justice.

  • Maxine Waters, congresswoman from California, second African-American woman to be elected to congress.

  • 1935

    American comedian and “cowboy philosopher” Will Rogers dies in an airplane accident, along with American aviation pioneer Wiley Post.

  • 1924

    Robert Bolt, English screenwriter and playwright best known for A Man for all Seasons.

  • 1914

    The Panama Canal opens to traffic.

  • 1912

    Julia Child, American chef and television personality.

  • 1888

    T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia for his military exploits against the Turks in World War I.

  • 1872

    The first ballot voting in England is conducted.

  • 1864

    The Confederate raider Tallahassee captures six Federal ships off New England.

  • 1771

    Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist who wrote Ivanhoe and Rob Roy.

  • 1769

    Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1804-1815) and military leader.

  • 1760

    Frederick II defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Liegnitz.

  • 1598

    Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, leads an Irish force to victory over the British at Battle of Yellow Ford.

  • 1385

    John of Portugal defeats John of Castile at the Battle of Aljubarrota.

  • 1261

    Constantinople falls to Michael VIII of Nicea and his army.