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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 30, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    333
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    167
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    334
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    182

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

What happened today

1963

Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.

Famous birthdays

1960

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese political-paramilitary group Hezbollah since 1992.

more events on August 30

  • 1986

    KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.

  • 1983

    Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.

  • Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.

  • 1982

    Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.

  • 1979

    First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.

  • 1976

    Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show.

  • 1972

    Cameron Diaz, model, award-winning actress (The Mask, There’s Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday).

  • 1967

    US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.

  • 1964

    Gavin Fisher, mechanical engineer; chief designer of the Williams Formula One racing team (1997–2005).

  • 1963

    Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.

  • 1961

    President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.

  • 1960

    US Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, receives posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia.

  • Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese political-paramilitary group Hezbollah since 1992.

  • 1958

    Anna Politkovskaya (Anna Mazepa), New York-born Ukrainian journalist, writer, human rights advocate best known for her reporting from Chechnya.

  • 1956

    Jayne Irving, TV broadcaster (Good Morning Britain).

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