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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 September 03, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    49
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    183
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    321
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    226

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





more events on September 3

  • 2001

    Protestant loyalists in Belfast, Ireland, begin an 11-week picket of the Holy Cross Catholic school for girls, sparking rioting.

  • 1994

    Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.

  • 1989

    US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Columbia for use against that country’s drug lords.

  • 1981

    Fearne Cotton, English radio and television presenter.

  • Egypt arrests some 1,500 opponents of the government.

  • 1976

    Ashley Jones, actress (True Blood and The Young and the Restless TV series).

  • The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.

  • 1969

    Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, dies.

  • 1967

    Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam.

  • 1965

    Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor (Platoon, Two and a Half Men TV series).

  • 1964

    Adam Curry, co-founder of Mevio, Inc., Internet entertainment company.

  • 1949

    Petros VII (Petros Papapetrou), Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa (1997–2004).

  • 1945

    General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio.

  • 1944

    The U.S. Seventh Army captures Lyons, France.

  • 1943

    British troops invade Italy, landing at Calabria.

  • 1942

    Alan Charles “Al” Jardine, musician, composer, vocalist, member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; founding member of the band The Beach Boys.

  • 1939

    The British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30 Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary.

  • After Germany ignores Great Britain’s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.

  • 1932

    Eileen Brennan, actress; won Golden Globe and Emmy for her role in the TV adaptation of Private Benjamin.

  • 1931

    Albert Henry DeSalvo, a serial killer and rapist known as the “Boston Strangler”; though he confessed to 13 murders, debate continues over which crimes he actually committed.

  • 1927

    Hugh Sidey, news correspondent and author of John F. Kennedy, President.

  • 1918

    The United States recognizes the nation of Czechoslovakia.

  • 1916

    The German Somme front is broken by an Allied offensive.

  • 1914

    Dixie Lee Ray, Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission who received the U.N. Peace Prize in 1977.

  • The French capital is moved from Paris to Bordeaux as the Battle of the Marne begins.

  • 1907

    Carl Anderson, physicist and 1936 Nobel prize winner for his discovery of the positron.

  • 1895

    The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe wins 12-0.

  • 1894

    Richard Niebuhr, theologian.

  • 1875

    Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designer of the Volkswagen in 1934 and the Porsche sports car in 1950.

  • 1856

    Louis H. Sullivan, architect who gained fame for his design of the Chicago Auditorium Theater.

  • 1855

    General William Harney defeats Little Thunder’s Brule Sioux at the Battle of Blue Water in Nebraska.

  • 1849

    Sarah Orne Jewett, author (Tales of New England, The Country of the Pointed Firs).

  • 1838

    Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life.

  • 1783

    The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end.

  • 1777

    The American flag (stars & stripes), approved by Congress on June 14th, is carried into battle for the first time by a force under General William Maxwell.

  • 1650

    The English under Cromwell defeat a superior Scottish army under David Leslie at the Battle of Dunbar.

  • 1346

    Edward III of England begins the siege of Calais, along the coast of France.

  • 1260

    Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.

  • 1189

    After the death of Henry II, Richard Lionheart is crowned king of England.