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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 February 28, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    299
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    234
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    83
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    295

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





more events on February 28

  • 1994

    U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in the troubled area.

  • 1971

    The male electorate in Lichtenstein refuses to give voting rights to women.

  • 1969

    A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s request to be executed.

  • 1967

    In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers.

  • 1953

    Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia sign a 5-year defense pact in Ankara.

  • 1946

    The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system.

  • 1945

    U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River.

  • 1936

    The Japanese Army restores order in Tokyo and arrests officers involved in a coup.

  • 1926

    Svetlana Stalin, daughter of Josef Stalin.

  • 1924

    U.S. troops are sent to Honduras to protect American interests during an election conflict.

  • 1916

    Haiti becomes the first U.S. protectorate.

  • 1911

    Denis Burkitt, British medical researcher.

  • 1909

    Stephen Spender, English poet, critic.

  • 1901

    Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning American chemist.

  • 1900

    After a 119-day siege by the Boers, the surrounded British troops in Ladysmith, South Africa, are relieved.

  • 1894

    Ben Hecht, writer.

  • 1863

    Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia.

  • 1861

    The territory of Colorado is established.

  • 1847

    Colonel Alexander Doniphan and his ragtag Missouri Mounted Volunteers ride to victory at the Battle of Sacramento, during the Mexican War.

  • 1824

    Charles Blondin, tightrope walker.

  • 1820

    John Tenniel, illustrator of various books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland).

  • 1704

    Indians attack Deerfield, Mass. killing 40 and kidnapping 100.

  • 1610

    Thomas West is appointed governor of Virginia.

  • 1574

    On the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, two Englishmen and an Irishman are burnt for heresy.

  • 1533

    Michel de Montaigne, French moralist who created the personal essay.

  • 1066

    Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in England, opens its doors.