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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 29, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    16
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    145
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    101
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    175

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





more events on December 29

  • 1981

    President Ronald Reagan curtails Soviet trade in reprisal for its harsh policies on Poland.

  • 1965

    A Christmas truce is observed in Vietnam, while President Johnson tries to get the North Vietnamese to the bargaining table.

  • 1956

    President Dwight Eisenhower asks Congress for the authority to oppose Soviet aggression in the Middle East.

  • 1948

    Josip “Tito” Broz declares Yugoslavia will follow its own path to communism.

  • 1940

    London suffers its most devastating air raid when Germans firebomb the city on the evening of December 29.

  • In a radio interview, President Roosevelt proclaims the United States to be the “arsenal of democracy.”

  • 1934

    Japan formally denounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which curbed the international arms race by limiting naval construction between the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan.

  • 1926

    Germany and Italy sign an arbitration treaty.

  • 1921

    Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald pledges $20 million of his personal fortune to help Sears through hard times.

  • 1914

    The production of Belgian newspapers is halted to protest German censorship.

  • 1907

    Robert C. Weaver, the first African American to serve on a president’s cabinet. He was Lyndon B. Johnson’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the first man ever to hold that post.

  • 1890

    The last major conflict of the Indian Wars takes place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tries to disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers.

  • 1862

    Union General William T. Sherman’s troops try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs.

  • 1849

    Gas lighting is installed in the White House.

  • 1845

    Texas (comprised of present-day Texas and part of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming) is admitted as the 28th state of the Union, with the provision that the area (389,166 square miles) should be divided into no more than five states “of convenient size.”

  • 1809

    William E. Gladstone, British prime minister.

  • 1808

    Andrew Johnson, American vice president who succeeded Lincoln after his assassination on April 15, 1865.

  • 1800

    Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber for tires.

  • 1778

    After attempting a new strategy to defeat the colonials in America, British troops capture Savannah, Georgia.

  • 1721

    Madam Jeanne Poisson de Pompadour, influential mistress of Louis XV, who was later blamed for France’s defeat in the Seven Years’ War.

  • 1607

    Indian chief Powhatan spares John Smith’s life after the pleas of his daughter Pocahontas.

  • 1170

    Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of Henry II.