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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 December 10, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    41
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    204
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    362
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    73

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





more events on December 10

  • 1986

    The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.

  • 1979

    The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in its 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.

  • 1966

    Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.

  • 1960

    Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.

  • 1955

    Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.

  • 1945

    B-29s hit the Tokyo area.

  • 1942

  • 1941

    Iceland is attacked by German planes.

  • London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.

  • 1939

    Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.

  • 1927

    (Mary Violet) Leontyne Price, opera singer.

  • 1920

    Alex Comfort, English physician and author (Joy of Sex).

  • 1915

    President Wilson blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

  • 1914

    Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso.

  • 1910

    Dominique Georges Pire, Belgian cleric and educator.

  • 1904

  • 1902

    Walter Brattain, physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor.

  • 1901

    Stella Adler, actress and teacher.

  • 1898

    Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (The Threepenny Opera).

  • 1897

    John F. Enders, virologist.

  • 1894

    Harold MacMillan, British prime minister (1957-1963).

  • 1893

    Jimmy Durante, American comedian and film actor.

  • 1890

    Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (Dr. Zhivago).

  • 1863

    P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.

  • 1846

    Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.

  • 1840

    Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.

  • 1814

    Napoleon personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.

  • 1799

    Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.

  • 1763

    The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.

  • 1620

    Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.

  • 1258

    Hulagu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.