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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 27, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    289
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    85
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    235
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    60

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





more events on July 27

  • 2002

    The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others.

  • 1993

    Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas.

  • 1981

    William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies.

  • 1980

    Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt.

  • 1964

    President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.

  • 1953

    Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjom, Korea.

  • 1944

    U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam.

  • 1940

    Bharati Mukherjee, Indian novelist (The Middleman and Other Stories).

  • 1939

    Michael Longley, Irish poet.

  • 1930

    David Hughes, English novelist (The Horsehair Sofa, The Man Who Invented Tomorrow).

  • 1921

    Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto.

  • 1914

    British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels.

  • 1909

    Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.

  • 1908

    Joseph Mitchell, writer for The New Yorker.

  • 1906

    Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager.

  • 1905

    The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.

  • 1870

    Hilaire Belloc, French writer (Cautionary Tales).

  • 1861

    President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac.

  • 1793

    Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

  • 1778

    British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant.

  • 1777

    Thomas Campbell, Scottish writer (The Pleasures of Hope).

  • The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.

  • 1768

    Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary, assassin of Jean Paul Marat.

  • 1689

    The Scottish Jacobites experience a victory over government-supporting clans at the Battle of Killiecrankie.

  • 1663

    The British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.

  • 1586

    Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia.

  • 1245

    Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.

  • 1214

    At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.