What happened on your birthday?

What’s Your Vietnam War Draft Lottery Number?

The Vietnam War draft lottery ran from 1969 to 1972. If you were born on February 24, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    236
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    226
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    359
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    261

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





more events on February 24

  • 1991

    General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sends in ground forces during the Gulf War.

  • 1972

    Hanoi negotiators walk out of the peace talks in Paris to protest U.S. air raids on North Vietnam.

  • 1968

    North Vietnamese troops capture the imperial palace in Hue, South Vietnam.

  • 1959

    Khrushchev rejects the Western plan for the Big Four meeting on Germany.

  • 1947

    Franz von Papen is sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for war crimes.

  • 1945

    U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in the Los Baños Prison in the Philippines.

  • 1944

    Merrill’s Marauders, a specially trained group of American soldiers, begin their ground campaign against Japan into Burma.

  • 1928

    The New Gallery of New York exhibits works of Archibald Motley, its first show to feature a black artist.

  • 1921

    Herbert Hoover becomes Secretary of Commerce.

  • 1916

    A film version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea opens in New York.

  • 1914

  • 1912

    The Jewish organization Hadassah is founded in New York City.

  • Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire.

  • 1909

    August Derleth, writer (Still is the Summer Night, The Shield of the Valiant).

  • 1908

    Japan officially agrees to restrict emigration to the U.S.

  • 1895

    The Cuban War of Independence begins.

  • 1887

    Mary Ellen Chase, New England writer.

  • 1885

    Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral who commanded naval forces in the Pacific during WWII.

  • 1874

    Honus Wagner, baseball shortstop known as “The Flying Dutchman.”

  • 1841

    John Phillip Holland, inventor of the modern submarine.

  • 1836

    Winslow Homer, American painter.

  • Some 3,000 Mexicans launch an assault on the Alamo with its 182 Texan defenders.

  • 1821

  • 1813

    Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet sinks the British sloop Peacock.

  • 1803

    Chief Justice John Marshall, by refusing to rule on the case of Marbury vs. Madison, asserts the authority of the judicial branch.

  • 1786

    Wilhelm Carl Grimm, compiler, with his brother of fairy tales.

  • 1538

    Ferdinand of Hapsburg and John Zapolyai, the two kings of Hungary, conclude the peace of Grosswardein.

  • 1525

    In the first of the Franco-Habsburg Wars, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V captures the French king Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, Italy.

  • 1500

    Charles V, king of Spain and the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned by the Pope.

  • 786

    Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His dominions are divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.