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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 June 01, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    249
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    65
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    274
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    15

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





more events on June 1

  • 1978

    The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.

  • 1963

    Governor George Wallace vows to defy an injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama.

  • 1958

    Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.

  • 1942

    America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.

  • 1941

    The German Army completes the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ends.

  • 1939

    The Douglas DC-4 makes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.

  • 1932

    Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer.

  • 1926

    Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker), film actress and icon.

  • 1921

    A white mob attacks the thriving Black community of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing 85 people in what comes to be known as the Tulsa Race Massacre.

  • 1916

    The National Defense Act increases the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.

  • 1915

    Germany conducts the first zeppelin air raid over England.

  • 1901

    John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera).

  • 1898

    Molly Picon, comic actress and singer.

  • 1878

    John Masefield, English poet.

  • 1877

    U.S. troops are authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.

  • 1868

    James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies.

  • 1864

    The Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins as Confederate general Robert E. Lee tries to turn Union general Ulysses S. Grant’s flank.

  • 1862

    General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Confederate army outside Richmond after General Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines.

  • 1831

    John B. Hood, Confederate general.

  • 1814

    Philip Kearney, Union general.

  • 1812

    American navy captain James Lawrence, mortally wounded in a naval engagement with the British, exhorts to the crew of his vessel, the Chesapeake, “Don’t give up the ship!”

  • 1801

    Brigham Young, American religious leader.

  • 1789

    The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths becomes law.

  • 1774

    The British government orders the port of Boston closed.

  • 1563

    Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.

  • 1533

    Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII‘s new queen, is crowned.

  • 193

    The Roman emperor, Marcus Didius, is murdered in his palace.