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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 05, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    101
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    33
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    265
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    338

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





more events on January 5

  • 2005

    Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.

  • 1991

    The South Ossetia War (1991-92) begins as Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia, Georgia.

  • 1982

    A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.

  • 1979

    Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.

  • 1971

    President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party.

  • 1969

    President Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks.

  • 1968

    U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.

  • 1952

    Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman.

  • 1951

    Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur’s amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army.

  • 1947

    Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines.

  • 1942

    U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.

  • 1938

    Juan Carlos I, King of Spain.

  • 1936

    Daggha Bur, Ethiopia, is bombed by the Italians.

  • 1932

    Umberto Eco, Italian novelist (The Name of the Rose).

  • 1928

    Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States, Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984, and Ambassador to Japan.

  • 1925

    Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.

  • 1923

    The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.

  • 1921

    Wagner’s “Die Walkyrie” opens in Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of World War I.

  • 1920

    GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June.

  • 1919

    British ships shell the Bolshevik headquarters in Riga.

  • 1917

    Bulgarian and German troops occupy the Port of Braila.

  • 1914

    Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year’s profits.

  • 1904

    American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there.

  • 1876

    Conrad Adenauer, first chancellor of post-World War II West Germany.

  • 1861

    The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops.

  • 1815

    Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.

  • 1779

    Stephen Decatur, American naval hero during actions against the Barbay pirates and the War of 1812.

  • 1757

    Robert Francois Damiens makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis XV of France.

  • 1477

    Swiss troops defeat the forces under Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy.