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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 22, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    290
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    271
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    13
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    20

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





more events on February 22

  • 1984

    Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.

  • 1967

    Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.

  • 1963

    Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.

  • 1962

    A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.

  • 1954

    U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.

  • 1952

    French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

  • 1951

    The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.

  • 1944

    Jonathan Demme, film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia).

  • 1942

    President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.

  • 1935

    All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt‘s sleep.

  • 1932

    Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator, brother of John F. Kennedy.

  • Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.

  • 1926

    Pope Pius rejects Mussolini‘s offer of aid to the Vatican.

  • 1925

    Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator.

  • 1924

    Columbia University declares radio education a success.

  • 1920

    The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.

  • 1911

    Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire.

  • 1909

    The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.

  • 1902

    A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.

  • 1900

    Sean O’Faolain, Irish short story writer.

  • 1892

    Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet.

  • 1879

    Frank Winfield Woolworth’s ‘nothing over five cents’ shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.

  • 1865

    Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.

  • 1864

    Nathan Bedford Forrest‘s brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.

  • 1862

    Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.

  • 1857

    Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, the first person to broadcast and receive radio waves.

  • Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement.

  • 1825

    Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.

  • 1819

    Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.

  • 1797

    The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.

  • 1778

    Rembrandt Peale, American painter known for portraits of U.S. founding fathers.

  • 1732

    George Washington, Commander-in-chief of Continental forces during the American Revolution and first U.S. President.

  • 1613

    Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia.

  • 1403

    Charles VII, King of France.

  • 1349

    Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.