What happened on your birthday?

What’s Your Vietnam War Draft Lottery Number?

The Vietnam War draft lottery ran from 1969 to 1972. If you were born on July 22, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    153
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    282
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    132
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    286

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

What happened today

1515

Emperor Maximilian and Vladislav of Bohemia forge an alliance between the Hapsburg and Jagiello dynasties in Vienna.

Famous birthdays

1887

Gustav Hertz, German physicist.

more events on July 22

  • 1966

    B-52 bombers hit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time.

  • 1946

    Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director (Taxi Driver).

  • 1943

    Palermo, Sicily surrenders to General George S. Patton‘s Seventh Army.

  • 1938

    The Third Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.

  • 1936

    Tom Robbins, novelist (Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues).

  • 1934

    American gangster John Dillinger is shot dead by FBI officers outside a Chicago cinema.

  • 1932

    Megan Terry, playwright (Calm Down Mother, Goona Goona).

  • 1923

    Robert Dole, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate.

  • 1908

    Amy Vanderbilt, American journalist, etiquette authority.

  • 1898

    Alexander Calder, sculptor.

  • Stephen Vincent Benet, poet and short-story writer (John Brown’s Body).

  • 1894

    The first automobile race takes place between Paris and Rouen, France.

  • 1893

    Karl Menninger, American physician, founder of the Menninger Foundation.

  • 1888

    Selman Abraham Waksman, biochemist.

  • 1887

    Gustav Hertz, German physicist.

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