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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 09, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    335
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    352
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    140
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    83

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





more events on June 9

  • 1986

    NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident.

  • 1972

    American advisor John Paul Vann is killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.

  • 1959

    The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched.

  • 1954

    At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency?”

  • 1951

    After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.

  • 1945

    Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

  • 1942

    The Japanese high command announces that “The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed.”

  • 1931

    Robert H. Goddard patents a rocket-fueled aircraft design.

  • 1923

    Bulgaria’s government is overthrown by the military.

  • 1916

    Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

  • 1915

    Les Paul, American guitarist and electric guitar innovator.

  • William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.

  • 1908

    King Edward VII of England becomes first British monarch to visit Russia, meeting with Czar Nicholas II in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.

  • 1901

    George Price, cartoonist.

  • 1891

    Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist.

  • 1877

    Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor.

  • 1865

    Carl Nielsen, Danish composer.

  • 1863

    At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War.

  • 1861

    Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals.

  • 1791

    John Howard Payne, American playwright and actor.

  • 1790

    Civil war breaks out in Martinique.

  • 1781

    George Stephenson, English engineer, built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

  • 1672

    Peter I, Russian Czar (1682-1725).

  • 1640

    Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

  • 1534

    Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

  • 1064

    Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile.