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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 December 08, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    105
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    323
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    65
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    210

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





more events on December 8

  • 2010

    The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus.

  • SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

  • 2004

    The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.

  • 1991

    The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States.

  • 1987

    An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada.

  • The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed.

  • 1982

    The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument.

  • 1980

    John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building.

  • 1968

    South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks.

  • 1967

    In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed.

  • 1966

    Sinead O’Connor, Irish singer, songwriter; has frequently generated controversy with her views on social issues such as organized religion and women’s rights.

  • 1964

    Teri Hatcher, actress; Lois Lane on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman TV series; won Golden Globe for Best Actress as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives TV series.

  • 1953

    Kim Basinger, actress, singer, producer; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for L.A. Confidential (1997).

  • 1948

    The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea.

  • 1947

    Gregg Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.

  • 1944

    The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

  • 1943

    Larry Martin, paleontologist; leading opponent of the "birds are living dinosaurs" theory.

  • Jim Morrison, singer, songwriter, poet; lead singer for The Doors and Rick & the Ravens.

  • U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands.

  • 1941

    Bobby Elliott, drummer, member of the band The Hollies.

  • Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore.

  • 1939

    Sir James Galway, virtuoso flute player known as "The Man With the Golden Flute."

  • 1933

    Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson Jr.), comedian and actor; won a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards for his 1970s TV variety series, The Flip Wilson Show.

  • 1932

    Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China.

  • 1930

    Maximilian Schell, actor, writer, director, producer; won Academy Award for Best Actor for Judgement at Nuremberg (1961).

  • 1925

    Sammy Davis Jr., singer ("The Candy Man"), dancer, actor (Ocean’s 11); member of the "Rat Pack".

  • 1922

    Jean Ritchie, singer, songwriter of folk music ("Blue Diamond Mines").

  • 1920

    President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.

  • 1916

    Richard Fleischer, film director, (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green).

  • 1914

    The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

  • 1913

    Delmore Schwartz, poet and writer.

  • 1906

    Richard Llewellyn, author (How Green Was My Valley).

  • 1894

    James Thurber, American writer, cartoonist and editor (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty).

  • 1863

    Union General William Averell’s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.

  • 1861

    CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry.

  • 1765

    Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.

  • 1660

    The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona.

  • 1626

    Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54).

  • 1542

    Mary, Queen of Scotland (1542-67).

  • 65

    Quintus "Horance" Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet and satirist best known for his three books Odes.