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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 March 05, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    293
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    299
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    172
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    266

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





more events on March 5

  • 1984

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that cities have the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.

  • 1976

    Britain gives up on the Ulster talks and decides to retain rule in Northern Ireland indefinitely.

  • 1969

    Gustav Heinemann is elected West German President.

  • 1956

    The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools in Brown vs. Board of Education.

  • 1948

    Leslie Marmon Silko, writer (Ceremony).

  • 1946

    In Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill tells a crowd that “an iron curtain has descended on the Continent [of Europe].”

  • 1943

    In desperation due to war losses, fifteen and sixteen year olds are called up for military service in the German army.

  • 1938

    Lynn Margulis, biologist.

  • 1933

    Hitler and Nationalist allies win the Reichstag majority. It will be the last free election in Germany until after World War II.

  • Newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt halts the trading of gold and declares a bank holiday.

  • 1928

    Hitler‘s National Socialists win the majority vote in Bavaria.

  • 1918

    The Soviets move the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.

  • 1912

    The Italians become the first to use dirigibles for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli.

  • 1908

    Rex Harrison, actor.

  • 1905

    Russians begin to retreat from Mukden in Manchuria, China.

  • 1887

    Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazillian composer.

  • 1870

    Frank Norris, novelist (McTeague, The Octopus).

  • 1853

    Howard Pyle, writer and illustrator (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood).

  • 1824

    James Merritt Ives, lithographer for Currier and Ives.

  • Elisha Harris, U.S. physician and founder of the American Public Health Association.

  • 1821

    James Monroe becomes the first president to be inaugurated on March 5, only because the 4th was a Sunday.

  • 1793

    Austrian troops crush the French and recapture Liege.

  • 1766

    Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

  • 1624

    Class-based legislation is passed in the colony of Virginia, exempting the upper class from punishment by whipping.

  • 1574

    William Oughtred, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule.

  • 1326

    Louis I (the Great), King of Hungary.

  • 1133

    Henry II, King of England (1133-1189).