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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 25, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    149
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    107
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    224
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    291

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





more events on September 25

  • 2009

    US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy jointly accuse Iran of building a secrecy nuclear enrichment facility.

  • 2008

    China launches Shenzhou 7 spacecraft; crew performs China’s first extra-vehicular activity (EVA).

  • 1996

    Ireland’s last Magdalene laundry closes; begun as asylums to rehabilitate “fallen women,” they increasingly took on prison-like qualities.

  • 1992

    NASA launches Mars Observer probe; it fails 11 months later.

  • 1983

    Maze Prison escape, County Antrim, Northern Ireland; 38 IRA prisoners escape in the largest prison breakout in British history; known among Irish republicans as the Great Escape.

  • 1981

    Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice, is sworn in.

  • 1974

    Scientists warn that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes.

  • 1969

    Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (The Darling Buds of May British TV series) won Academy Award and BAFTA Award for her role in Chicago.

  • 1968

    Will Smith, rapper (known as The Fresh Prince, “Getting’ Jiggy Wit It”), actor, producer; awards include four Grammys.

  • 1965

    Scottie Pippen, pro basketball player (Chicago Bulls), played important role in Bull’s record 72-win season (1995-96).

  • 1964

    Maria Doyle Kennedy, actress (The Tudors), composer, singer, songwriter, musician.

  • 1961

    Heather Locklear, actress (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Spin City TV series).

  • 1959

    President Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begin Camp David talks.

  • 1956

    Kim Thompson, editor, publisher; co-founder of Fantagraphics Books.

  • 1951

    Mark Hamill actor, voice actor, producer, director, writer (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars; voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series).

  • 1944

    Michael Douglas, actor, producer; his numerous awards include two Academy Awards (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Wall Street), four Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

  • 1943

    Robert Gates, director of CIA under Pres. George H.W. Bush; Secretary of Defense (2006-11).

  • The Red Army retakes Smolensk from the Germans who are retreating to the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.

  • 1942

    The War Labor Board orders equal pay for women in the United States.

  • 1938

    President Franklin Roosevelt urges negotiations between Hitler and Czech President Edvard Benes over the Sudetenland.

  • 1937

    German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.

  • 1936

    Juliet Prowse, dancer whose career spanned four decades and included work in stage, film and TV productions; (Can-Can; G.I Blues; Mona McCluskey TV series).

  • 1933

    Ian Tyson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer; performed with Ian & Sylvia and Great Speckled Bird.

  • 1932

    Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, 1st Duke of Suarez, Grandee of Spain, Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister following Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

  • Glenn Gould, concert pianist best known for his Bach interpretations.

  • 1931

    Barbara Walters, television news personality and interviewer.

  • 1918

    Brazil declares war on Austria.

  • 1915

    An allied offensive is launched in France against the German Army.

  • 1909

    The first National Aeronautic Show opens at Madison Square Garden.

  • 1906

    Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer.

  • 1897

    William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning writer (The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!).

  • 1847

    Vinnie Ream, who sculpted President Abraham Lincoln from life shortly before he was assassinated.

  • 1846

    American General Zachary Taylor’s forces capture Monterey, Mexico.

  • 1804

    The 12th Amendment is ratified, changing the procedure of choosing the president and vice-president.

  • 1789

    Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution.

  • 1775

    British troops capture Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful of Americans try to invade Canada.

  • 1598

    In Sweden, King Sigismund is defeated at Stangebro by his uncle Charles.

  • 1396

    The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bayezid I’s Ottoman army at Nicopolis.