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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 09, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    277
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    1
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    22
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    179

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





more events on July 9

  • 1971

    The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.

  • 1943

    American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily.

  • 1942

    Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

  • 1937

    David Hockney, painter.

  • 1936

    June Jordan, poet and author.

  • 1933

    Oliver Sachs, neurologist and author (Awakenings).

  • 1926

    Mathilde Krim, geneticist, founder of the AIDS foundation.

  • 1908

    Minor White, abstract photographer.

  • 1900

    The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.

  • 1894

    Dorothy Thompson, journalist, writer and radio commentator.

  • 1887

    Samuel Eliot Morison, biographer and historian.

  • 1861

    Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky.

  • 1858

    Franz Boas, anthropologist.

  • 1850

    U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.

  • 1819

    Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine.

  • 1790

    The Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.

  • 1789

    In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution.

  • 1764

    Ann Radcliffe, English novelist.

  • 1755

    General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops.

  • 1609

    Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of worship.

  • 1553

    Maurice of Saxony is mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

  • 455

    Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West.

  • 118

    Hadrian, Rome’s new emperor, makes his entry into the city.