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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 30, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    3
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    192
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    167
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    281

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





more events on December 30

  • 2006

    Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule.

  • 1976

    Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising.

  • 1972

    After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, President Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho.

  • 1965

    Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president.

  • 1947

    Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe.

  • 1935

    Sandy Koufax, Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher with the L.A. Dodgers.

  • 1932

    The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat.

  • 1928

    Bo Diddley, blues composer and singer.

  • 1922

    Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  • 1905

    Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb.

  • 1884

    Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister during World War II.

  • 1867

    Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist and U.S. senator for Colorado.

  • 1865

    Rudyard Kipling, British author (Jungle Book, Soldiers Three).

  • 1862

    The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln‘s cabinet for comment.

  • 1861

    Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879.

  • 1803

    The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags.

  • 1460

    The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield.