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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 06, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    10
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    198
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    356
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    336

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





more events on December 6

  • 2006

    NASA reveals photographs from Mars Global Surveyor that suggest the presence of water on the red planet.

  • 1992

    The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, is destroyed during a riot that started as a political protest.

  • 1976

    Democrat Tip O’Neill is elected speaker of the House of Representatives. He will serve the longest consecutive term as speaker.

  • 1975

    A Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, and a 6-day siege begins.

  • 1973

    US House of Representatives confirms Gerald Ford as Vice-President of the United States, 387–35.

  • 1971

    Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi recognizes the state of Bangladesh.

  • 1969

    Hells Angels, hired to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, beat to death concert-goer Meredith Hunter.

  • 1967

    Judd Apatow, film producer, director, screenwriter (Bridesmaids).

  • Adrian Kantrowitz performs first human heart transplant in the US.

  • 1957

     Vanguard TV3 explodes on the launchpad, thwarting the first US attempt to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit.

  • 1952

    Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.

  • Charles Bronson (Michael Gordon Peterson), criminal often called “the most violent prisoner in Britain” by the British Press.

  • 1948

    JoBeth Williams, actress, director (Poltergeist, The Big Chill); current (2013) president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

  • The “Pumpkin Spy Papers” are found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. They become evidence that State Department employee Alger Hiss is spying for the Soviet Union.

  • 1947

    Florida’s Everglades National Park is established.

  • 1945

    The United States extends a $3 billion loan to Great Britain to help compensate for the termination of the Lend-Lease agreement.

  • 1942

    Peter Handke, playwright and poet.

  • 1941

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues a personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito to use his influence to avoid war.

  • 1939

    Britain agrees to send arms to Finland, which is fighting off a Soviet invasion.

  • 1938

    France and Germany sign a treaty of friendship.

  • 1934

    American Ambassador Davis says Japan is a grave security threat in the Pacific.

  • 1922

    Benito Mussolini threatens Italian newspapers with censorship if they keep reporting “false” information.

  • 1921

    Ireland’s 26 southern counties become independent from Britain forming the Irish Free State.

  • 1920

    Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist and composer.

  • 1917

    The Bolsheviks imprison Czar Nicholas II and his family in Tobolsk.

  • 1906

    Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge flies a powered, man-carrying kite that carries him 168 feet in the air for seven minutes at Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

  • 1901

    Eliot Porter, nature photographer.

  • 1898

    Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist.

  • Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist.

  • 1896

    Ira Gershwin, American lyricist and musical collaborator with his brother George.

  • 1886

    Joyce Kilmer, American poet, best known for “Trees.”

  • 1877

    Thomas A. Edison makes the first sound recording when he recites “Mary had a Little Lamb” into his phonograph machine.

  • 1876

    Jack McCall is convicted for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok and sentenced to hang.

  • 1865

    The 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery.

  • 1863

    The monitor Weehawken sinks in Charleston Harbor.

  • 1862

    President Abraham Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. They are to be hanged on December 26.

  • 1861

    Union General George G. Meade leads a foraging expedition to Gunnell’s farm near Dranesville, Virginia.

  • 1812

    The majority of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé staggers into Vilna, Lithuania, ending the failed Russian campaign.

  • 1776

    Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold.

  • 1421

    Henry VI, the youngest king of England to accede to the throne (only 269 days old).