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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 January 03, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    251
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    336
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    246
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    42

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





more events on January 3

  • 2000

    The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published after a 50-year run, following the death of the strip’s creator, Charles Schultz.

  • 1999

    Mars Polar Lander launched.

  • 1996

    The first mobile flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale.

  • 1994

    More than 7 million people receive South African citizenship that had previously been denied under Apartheid policies.

  • 1993

    George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

  • 1990

    Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to US forces.

  • 1985

    President Ronald Reagan condemns a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics.

  • 1978

    North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupy 400 square miles in Cambodia. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops were using Laos and Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces.

  • 1977

    Apple Computers incorporates.

  • 1966

    Cambodia warns the United Nations of retaliation unless the United States and South Vietnam end intrusions.

  • 1961

    The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

  • 1959

    Fidel Castro takes command of the Cuban army.

  • Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.

  • 1958

    The British create the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general.

  • 1956

    Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer, screenwriter (Mad Max, Passion of the Christ).

  • 1946

    President Harry S. Truman calls on Americans to spur Congress to act on the on-going labor crisis.

  • 1933

    The Japanese take Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese.

  • 1931

    Hundreds of farmers storm a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food.

  • 1930

    The second conference on Germany’s war reparations begins at the Hague, in the Netherlands.

  • 1929

    Sergio Leone, Italian director, instrumental in creating the “Spaghetti Western” genre (A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

  • 1924

    King Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus is uncovered near Luxor, Egypt.

  • 1923

    Bud Adams, owner of Houston Oilers (later Tennessee Titans) football team; instrumental in founding the former American Football League.

  • 1921

    Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.

  • 1920

    The last of the U.S. troops depart France.

  • 1917

    Vernon A. Walters, US Army lieutenant general, diplomat, deputy director of Central Intelligence; member of Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

  • 1916

    Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.

  • 1912

    Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.

  • 1911

    John Sturges, director (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape).

  • 1910

    The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demands universal suffrage.

  • 1909

    Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, conductor.

  • 1907

    Ray Milland, Welsh actor and director; won Academy Award for his role in The Lost Weekend.

  • 1903

    The Bulgarian government renounces the Treaty of Commerce tying it to the Austro-Hungarian empire.

  • 1901

    Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president assassinated by his own generals.

  • 1861

    Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union.

  • 1793

    Lucretia Coffin Mott, women’s rights advocate and founder of the first Women’s Rights Convention.

  • 1777

    General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.

  • 1621

    William Tucker, believed to be first African-American born in the New World.

  • 1521

    Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

  • 106

    Marcus Cicero, Roman statesman and author.