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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 07, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    12
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    162
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    141
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    267

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





more events on December 7

  • 2003

    Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, heiress apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

  • A tornado in Kensal Green, North West London, damages about 150 properties.

  • 1999

    The Recording Industry Association of America files a copyright infringement suit against the file-sharing website Napster.

  • 1995

    Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter after a 6-year journey.

  • 1988

    Emily Browning, actress, singer, model; won AFI International Award for Best Actress as Violet Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

  • Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recognizes Israel’s right to exist.

  • An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people.

  • 1981

    The Reagan Administration predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion.

  • 1972

    The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

  • 1970

    Poland and West Germany sign a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland’s western frontier, and acknowledging the transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory.

  • 1956

    Larry Bird, basketball player for the Boston Celtics.

  • 1949

    Tom Waits, singer, songwriter (“Jersey Girl,” “Downtown Train”), musician, actor (Down by Law).

  • The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union.

  • 1947

    Johnny Bench, pro baseball catcher; twice named National League Most Valuable Player, he was dubbed the greatest catcher in baseball history by ESPN.

  • 1946

    The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work.

  • 1942

    The U.S. Navy launches USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built.

  • 1941

    Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a surprise attack, bringing the US into WWII.

  • 1932

    Ellen Burstyn, actress; won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974); won Tony for Same Time, Next Year (1975).

  • 1931

    A report indicates that Nazis would ensure “Nordic dominance” by sterilizing certain races.

  • 1928

    Noam Chomsky, writer, linguist and political activist.

  • 1918

    Spartacists call for a German revolution.

  • 1917

    The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress.

  • 1896

    Stuart Davis, painter.

  • 1895

    Sir Milton Margay, the first prime minister of Sierra Leone.

  • 1888

    Ernst Toch, composer and pianist.

  • Joyce Cary, Irish-born novelist (The Horse’s Mouth).

  • 1873

    Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (O Pioneers!, My Antonia).

  • 1863

    Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the “Innocents,” robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana.

  • 1862

    Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

  • 1861

    USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent.

  • 1810

    Theodor Schwann, German physiologist.

  • 1808

    James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson.

  • 1787

    Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

  • 983

    Otto III takes the throne after his father’s death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues.

  • 43

    Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius.