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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 May 01, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    330
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    179
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    154
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    58

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





more events on May 1

  • 2011

    Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear.

  • 1986

    The Tass News Agency reports the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

  • 1970

    Students from Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia.

  • 1968

    In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.

  • 1961

    Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.

  • 1960

    Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia.

  • 1950

    Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen.

  • 1948

    North Korea is established.

  • 1945

    Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Führerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin.

  • 1944

    The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes its first flight.

  • 1941

    The film Citizen Kane—directed by and starring Orson Welles—opens in New York.

  • 1940

    Bobbie Ann Mason, American writer (Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country).

  • 1937

    President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.

  • 1934

    The Philippine legislature accepts a U.S. proposal for independence.

  • 1931

    The Empire State Building opens in New York.

  • 1927

    Adolf Hitler holds his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.

  • 1924

    Terry Southern, novelist and screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider).

  • 1923

    Joseph Heller, American author best known for Catch-22, originally published in 1961.

  • 1916

    Glenn Ford, actor (The Blackboard Jungle, 1955).

  • 1915

    The British luxury liner Lusitania leaves New York Harbor for a voyage to Europe. A week later it would be torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat.

  • 1909

    Kate Smith, singer famous for her rendition of “God Bless America.”

  • 1898

    The U.S. Navy under Commodore George Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines.

  • 1896

    Mark Clark, U.S. Army general during World War II.

  • 1878

    James Graham, inventor of the first naval aircraft-carrying ship and first man to film a total eclipse of the sun.

  • 1877

    President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.

  • 1867

    Reconstruction in the South begins with black voter registration.

  • 1863

    The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union General Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

  • 1839

    Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud, French chemist, inventor of rayon.

  • 1830

    Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, reformer and labor organizer.

  • 1805

    The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation.

  • 1769

    Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

  • 1764

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol.

  • 1493

    Philippus Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, astrologer and “father of toxicology.”

  • 1486

    Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to the West Indies.

  • 1308

    King Albert is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands.

  • 408

    Theodosius II succeeds to the throne of Constantinople.