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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 August 16, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    44
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    329
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    358
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    19

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





more events on August 16

  • 2012

    In South Africa police fire on striking mine workers, killing at least 34.

  • 1990

    Iraq orders 2,500 Americans and 4,000 British nationals in Kuwait to Iraq, in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of that country.

  • 1988

    IBM introduces artificial intelligence software.

  • 1987

    Astrological alignment of sun, moon and six planets marks what believers maintain is the dawning of a New Age.

  • 1986

    Sudanese rebels shoot down a Sudanese Airways plane, killing 57 people.

  • 1984

    The safe of the sunken ocean liner Andrea Doria is opened on TV after three decades, revealing cash and certificates but no other valuables.

  • 1977

    Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • 1972

    Emily Robison, singer, musician, songwriter, member of the bestselling Country group Dixie Chicks.

  • 1967

    Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born actress, model and UK television personality.

  • 1965

    The Watts riots end in south-central Los Angeles after six days.

  • 1962

    Steve Carell, actor and comedian (The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Office, Evan Almighty).

  • 1960

    Timothy Hutton, youngest actor ever to receive an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Ordinary People).

  • 1958

    Madonna [Louise Veronica Ciccone], entertainer and singer.

  • 1945

    Suzanne Farrel, ballerina.

  • Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops.

  • 1940

    Bruce Beresford, Australian film director whose films include Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy.

  • 1930

    Ted Hughes, English poet.

  • 1929

    Bill Evans, jazz pianist.

  • 1920

    Charles Bukowski, poet and novelist.

  • 1914

    Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army.

  • 1913

    Menachem Begin, Israeli statesman and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

  • 1896

    Gold is discovered in the Klondike of Canada’s Yukon Territory, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

  • 1868

    Bernard McFadden, publisher responsible for the magazine True Story.

  • 1863

    Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, Tennessee to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga.

  • 1861

    Union and Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri.

  • 1858

    U.S. President James Buchanan and Britain’s Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line.

  • 1812

    American General William Hull surrenders Detroit without resistance to a smaller British force under General Issac Brock.

  • 1780

    American troops are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina.

  • 1777

    France declares a state of bankruptcy.

  • 1645

    Jean de la Bruyere, French writer and moralist famous for his work Characters of Theophratus.

  • 1513

    Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian defeat the French at Guinegatte, France, in the Battle of the Spurs.