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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 April 13, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    124
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    143
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    271
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    169

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





more events on April 13

  • 1979

    The world’s longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.

  • 1976

    The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.

  • 1970

    An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.

  • 1964

    Sidney Poitier becomes the first black individual to win an Oscar for best actor.

  • 1961

    The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.

  • 1960

    The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth’s orbit.

  • 1945

    Vienna falls to Soviet troops.

  • 1943

  • 1941

  • 1939

    Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate.

  • 1933

    The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.

  • 1922

    John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).

  • 1919

    British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.

  • 1909

    Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist’s Daughter).

  • 1906

    Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).

  • 1902

    J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

  • 1899

    Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.

  • 1866

    Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.

  • 1864

    Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.

  • 1861

    After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.

  • 1852

    Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.

  • 1775

    Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.

  • 1743

  • 1732

    Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82).

  • 1721

    John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.

  • 1598

    The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.