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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 November 29, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    99
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    100
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    230
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    147

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





more events on November 29

  • 2007

    Armed forces of the Philippines besiege The Peninsula Manila in response to a mutiny led by Senator Antonio Trillanes.

  • 1973

    Sarah Jones, Tony and Obie award-winning playwright, actress, poet (Bridge & Tunnel).

  • 1972

    Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

  • 1967

    US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

  • 1963

    President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

  • 1962

    Algeria bans the Communist Party.

  • 1961

    NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit.

  • 1957

    Janet Napolitano, politician, lawyer; first woman to serve as US Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013).

  • 1955

    Howard “Howie” Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor (St. Elsewhere), TV host (Deal or No Deal game show), voice actor (Bobby’s World); judge on America’s Got Talent TV show.

  • 1949

    The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.

  • 1948

    The popular children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres.

  • The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with “Othello.”

  • 1942

    Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the US; she was an anthropologist specializing in economic anthropology and rural development.

  • 1940

    Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer (“Feels So Good”).

  • 1939

    Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland.

  • 1933

    John Mayall, singer, songwriter, musician; founder of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers band.

  • 1932

    Jacques Chirac, politician; President of France (1995–2007).

  • 1931

    The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution.

  • 1929

    Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.

  • 1923

    An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy.

  • 1921

    Dagmar (Virginia Ruth Egnor) actress, model, television personality (Dagmar’s Canteen, Broadway Open House).

  • 1919

    Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and magazine publisher; co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness magazine.

  • 1918

    Madeleine L’Engle, writer (A Wrinkle in Time).

  • 1911

    Konrad Fuchs, German atomic physicist.

  • 1908

    Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and Civil Rights leader.

  • 1903

    An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud.

  • 1900

    Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, aka Axis Sally, Nazi propagandist.

  • 1898

    C.S. Lewis, Christian writer.

  • 1895

    Busby Berkeley, director (42nd Street).

  • 1864

    Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.

  • 1863

    The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal.

  • 1832

    Louisa May Alcott, novelist (Little Women).

  • 1812

    The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armee retreats across the Beresina River in Russia.

  • 1803

    Christian Doppler, best known for his explanation of perceived frequency variation of sound and light waves, known as the Doppler effect.

  • 1787

    Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants.

  • 1760

    Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain.