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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 13, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    163
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    151
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    204
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    335

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





more events on December 13

  • 2003

    Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured; he is found hiding in near his home town of Tikrit.

  • 2001

    Terrorists attach the Parliament of India Sansad; 15 people are killed, including the terrorists

  • 1989

    Taylor Swift, multiple award-winning crossover country singer, actress; youngest-ever Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year and youngest artist ever to win an Album of the Year Grammy.

  • 1985

    France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum.

  • 1981

    Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity.

  • 1973

    Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy.

  • 1972

    Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.

  • 1968

    President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.

  • 1967

    Jamie Foxx, actor, singer.

  • 1954

    John Anderson, country singer, musician.

  • 1951

    After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.

  • 1948

    Ted Nugent, singer, songwriter, musician, actor.

  • Jeff Baxter, musician with Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers bands.

  • 1945

    France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon.

  • 1941

    British forces launch an offensive in Libya.

  • 1940

    Adolf Hitler issues preparations for Operation Martita, the German invasion of Greece.

  • 1937

    The Japanese army occupies Nanking, China. Boeing’s Trailblazing P-26 Peashooters.

  • 1934

    Richard D. Zanuck, film producer; won Academy Award for Best Picture in 1989 (Driving Miss Daisy).

  • 1925

    Dick Van Dyke, actor, singer, producer; (The Dick Van Dyke TV series, Mary Poppins).

  • 1923

    Phillip Anderson, physicist.

  • Sir Terence Beckett, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (1980–1987).

  • 1911

    Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (Before the Brave, Hurrah for Anything).

  • 1908

    The Dutch take two Venezuelan Coast Guard ships.

  • 1902

    The Committee of Imperial Defense holds its first meeting in London.

  • 1890

    Marc Connelly, playwright, actor, director and journalist (The Green Pastures).

  • 1862

    The Battle of Fredericksburg ends with the bloody slaughter of onrushing Union troops at Marye’s Heights. Maine’s Colonel Chamberlain at Marye’s Heights.

  • 1838

    Alexis Millardet, botanist who developed the first successful fungicide.

  • 1835

    Phillips Brooks, Episcopal clergyman who wrote the lyrics for "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

  • 1818

    Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.

  • 1814

    General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. The Battle of New Orleans

  • 1812

    The last remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé reach the safety of Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian campaign. Napoleon’s costly retreat from Moscow

  • 1797

    Heinrich Heine, German poet, satirist and journalist.

  • 1789

    The National Guard is created in France.

  • 1585

    William Drummond, Scottish poet.