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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 30, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    103
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    209
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    301
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    48

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





more events on May 30

  • 1971

    NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars.

  • 1942

    The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany.

  • 1921

    The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.

  • 1916

    Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.

  • 1913

    The First Balkan War ends.

  • 1912

    U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.

  • 1909

    Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.

  • 1908

    Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.

  • Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.

  • 1903

    Countee Cullen, American poet.

  • 1889

    The brassiere is invented.

  • 1868

    Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.

  • 1867

    Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.

  • 1862

    Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi.

  • 1859

    The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro.

  • 1854

  • 1848

    William Young patents the ice cream freezer.

  • 1814

    The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders.

  • 1783

    The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.

  • 1672

    Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia.

  • 1539

    Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold.

  • 1527

    The University of Marburg is founded in Germany.

  • 1431

    Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English.

  • 1416

    Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.