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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 July 08, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    13
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    106
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    320
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    355

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





more events on July 8

  • 1960

    The Soviet Union charges American pilot Francis Gary Powers with espionage.

  • 1953

    Anna Quindlen, novelist.

  • 1943

    Faye Wattleton, women’s rights advocate.

  • American B-24 bombers strike Japanese-held Wake Island for the first time.

  • 1941

    20 B-17s fly in their first mission with the Royal Air Force over Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

  • 1918

    Ernest Hemingway is wounded in Italy while working as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.

  • 1908

    Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. vice president to Gerald Ford.

  • 1906

    Philip C. Johnson, architect.

  • 1905

    The mutinous crew of the battleship Potemkin surrenders to Romanian authorities.

  • 1879

    The first ship to use electric lights departs from San Francisco, California.

  • 1869

    William Vaughn Moody, poet and playwright (The Great Divide).

  • 1865

    Four of the conspirators in President Abraham Lincoln‘s assassination are hanged in Washington, D.C.

  • 1864

    Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston retreats into Atlanta to prevent being flanked by Union General William T. Sherman.

  • 1863

    Demoralized by the surrender of Vicksburg, Confederates in Port Hudson, Louisiana, surrender to Union forces.

  • 1859

    The truce at Villafranca Austria cedes Lombardy to France.

  • 1839

    John D. Rockefeller, financier, philanthropist, founder of Standard Oil.

  • 1838

    Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German designer and manufacturer of airships.

  • 1822

    29-year old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns while sailing in Italy.

  • 1815

    With Napoleon defeated, Louis XVIII returns to Paris.

  • 1794

    French troops capture Brussels, Belgium.

  • 1758

    The British attack on Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga, New York, is foiled by the French.

  • 1755

    Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with France as their disputes in the New World intensify.

  • 1709

    Peter the Great defeats Charles XII at Poltava, in the Ukraine, effectively ending the Swedish empire.

  • 1686

    The Austrians take Budapest from the Turks and annex Hungary.

  • 1663

    The British crown grants Rhode Island a charter guaranteeing freedom of worship.

  • 1621

    Jean de La Fontaine, poet and author (Fables).

  • 1608

    The first French settlement at Quebec is established by Samuel de Champlain.

  • 1099

    Christian Crusaders march around Jerusalem as Muslims watch from within the city.