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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 01, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    129
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    347
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    38
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    170

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





more events on December 1

  • 2001

    Trans World Airlines’ final flight following the carrier’s purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport.

  • 1991

    Ukraine’s voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR.

  • 1990

    Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel.

  • 1989

    East Germany’s parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state.

  • 1988

    Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state

  • 1986

    Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale.

  • 1981

    AIDS virus officially recognized.

  • 1971

    Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan.

  • 1969

    America’s first draft lottery since 1942 is held.

  • 1966

    Andrew Adamson, New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter (Shrek; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe); he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006.

  • 1958

    Candace Bushnell, author (Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries).

  • 1955

    Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws.

  • 1949

    Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord whose Medellin Cartel killed thousands.

  • 1945

    Bette Midler, singer, songwriter, actress, producer; her awards include 3 Grammys, 4 Golden Globes, 3 Emmys and a special Tony for her contribution to Broadway (1974).

  • 1942

    National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.

  • 1941

    The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States.

  • Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks.

  • Japan’s Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic.

  • 1940

    Richard Pryor, influential comedian, actor, satirist.

  • 1935

    Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, writer and director (Annie Hall).

  • 1934

    Josef Stalin’s aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad.

  • 1933

    Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich.

  • 1925

    Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.

  • After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.

  • 1918

    An American army of occupation enters Germany.

  • 1916

    King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies.

  • 1913

    Mary Martin, American actress.

  • 1909

    President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries.

  • 1908

    The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria’s action in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

  • 1905

    Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.

  • 1900

    Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.

  • 1886

    Rex Stout, writer, creator of detective character Nero Wolfe.

  • 1881

    Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.

  • 1863

    Oliver Herford, American humorist and poet.

  • Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington.

  • 1862

    President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress.

  • 1861

    The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000.

  • 1847

    Julia Moore, poet.

  • 1761

    Madame Tussaud, Swiss-born modeller in wax who founded the world-famous exhibition on London’s Baker Street.

  • 1581

    Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured.

  • 1135

    Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.