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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 28, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    257
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    309
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    5
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    70

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





more events on September 28

  • 2008

    SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.

  • 1996

    Afghanistan’s former president (1986-92) Mohammad Najibullah tortured and murdered by the Taliban.

  • 1995

    Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat sign an interim agreement concerning settlement on the Gaza Strip.

  • 1963

    Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art work Whaam!, depicting in comic-book style a US jet shooting down an enemy fighter, is exhibited for the first time; it will become one of the best known examples of pop art.

  • 1961

    Military coup in Damascus ends the Egypt-Syria union known as the United Arab Republic that was formed Feb. 1, 1958.

  • 1960

    Jennifer Rush, singer, songwriter (“The Power of Love”).

  • 1959

    Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of earth.

  • 1958

    France ratifies a new constitution.

  • 1943

    Winston “Win” Percy, three-time British Touring Car Champion, regarded by many as the World’s Number One Touring Car Driver

  • 1939

    Stuart Kauffman, theoretical biologist renowned for his work in studying the origin of life and origins of molecular organization.

  • Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland; Warsaw surrenders to German troops.

  • 1938

    Koko Taylor, blues singer.

  • Ben E. King, lead singer of The Drifters and composer of “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me.”

  • 1934

    Brigitte Bardot, French actress.

  • 1928

    Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin when he notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory; it remained for Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to isolate the active ingredient, allowing the “miracle drug” to be developed in the 1940s.

  • 1924

    Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2).

  • Three U.S. Army aircraft arrive in Seattle, Washington after completing a 22-day round-the-world flight.

  • 1915

    Ethel Rosenberg, who, with her husband Julius, became one of the first American civilians executed for espionage.

  • 1913

    Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people.

  • 1912

    W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” is published.

  • 1909

    Al Capp, cartoonist who created the “Li’l Abner” comic strip.

  • 1904

    A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

  • 1901

    Ed Sullivan, television host.

  • 1874

    Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses.

  • 1864

    Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry.

  • 1820

    Friedrich Engels, socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

  • 1794

    The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed.

  • 1607

    Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia.

  • 1238

    James of Aragon retakes Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs.

  • 1106

    King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.

  • 1066

    William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invades England.

  • 855

    The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons.

  • 48

    On landing in Egypt, Pompey is murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.