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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 12, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    300
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    24
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    258
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    44

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





more events on March 12

  • 1994

    The Church of England ordains women priests.

  • 1985

    The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.

  • 1984

    Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.

  • 1959

    The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.

  • 1946

    Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time).

  • 1945

    Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.

  • 1944

    Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.

  • 1939

    Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome.

  • 1938

    German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.

  • 1933

    President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.

  • President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.

  • 1930

    Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.

  • 1928

    Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf).

  • 1922

    Jack Kerouac, American novelist (On the Road).

  • 1917

    Russian troops mutiny as the “February Revolution” begins.

  • 1912

    Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.

  • 1911

    Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.

  • 1909

    British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.

  • 1903

    The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.

  • 1894

    Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

  • 1890

    Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer.

  • 1884

    Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.

  • 1879

    The British Zulu War begins.

  • 1863

    President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.

  • 1862

    Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross.

  • 1858

    Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of The New York Times.

  • 1809

    Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.

  • 1789

    The United States Post Office is established.

  • 1664

    New Jersey becomes a British colony.

  • 1609

    The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.

  • 1554

    Richard Hooker, English theologian (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity).

  • 1507

    Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.

  • 1496

    The Jews are expelled from Syria.