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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 February 19, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    25
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    331
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    210
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    127

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





more events on February 19

  • 1987

    New York Governor Mario Cuomo declares that he will not run for president in the next election.

  • 1981

    The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a “textbook case” of a Communist plot.

  • 1976

    Britain slashes welfare spending.

  • 1966

    Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing South Vietnam.

  • 1965

    Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested for blocking the United Nations’ doors in New York.

  • 1952

    Amy Tan, novelist (The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife).

  • 1944

    The U.S. Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force begin “Big Week,” a series of heavy bomber attacks against German aircraft production facilities.

  • 1942

    Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese.

  • 1940

    Smokey Robinson, American singer and songwriter.

  • 1926

    Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth’s age at one billion years.

  • 1925

    President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax.

  • 1919

    The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France.

  • 1917

    Carson McCullers, writer (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).

  • American troops are recalled from the Mexican border.

  • 1915

    British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardenelles, in an abortive expedition to seize the straits of Gallipoli.

  • 1911

    Merle Oberon, film actress.

  • 1903

    The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two year military service.

  • 1902

    Kay Boyle, short story writer (“The White Horses of Vienna”).

  • Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.

  • 1861

    Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom.

  • 1859

    Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, founder of physical chemistry.

  • 1847

    Rescuers finally reach the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierras.

  • 1817

    William III, King of the Netherlands.

  • 1807

    Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. He is later found innocent.

  • 1701

    Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid.

  • 1683

    Philip V, King of Spain.

  • 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer who introduced the idea that the earth revolved around the sun.

  • 1408

    The revolt of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV, ends with his defeat and death at Bramham Moor.