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 January 13, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    318
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    330
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    183
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    298

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





more events on January 13

  • 1990

    In Virginia, Douglas Wilder, the first African American elected governor of a US state, takes office.

  • 1982

    Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge shortly after takeoff, then plunges into the Potomac River; 78 people, including 4 motorists, are killed.

  • 1980

    The United States offers Pakistan a two-year aid plan to counter the Soviet threat in Afghanistan.

  • 1976

    Argentina ousts a British envoy in dispute over the Falkland Islands.

  • 1968

    U.S. reports shifting most air targets from North Vietnam to Laos.

  • 1965

    Two U.S. planes are shot down in Laos while on a combat mission.

  • 1961

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, producer (Seinfeld TV series)

  • 1955

    Chase National and the Bank of Manhattan agree to merge resulting in the second largest U.S. bank.

  • 1947

    British troops replace striking truck drivers.

  • 1945

    The Red Army opens an offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines.

  • 1944

    Plants are destroyed and 64 U.S. aircraft are lost in an air attack in Germany.

  • 1943

    General Leclerc’s Free French forces merge with the British under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Libya.

  • 1937

    The United States bars Americans from serving in the Civil War in Spain.

  • 1931

    The bridge connecting New York and New Jersey is named the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

  • 1929

    Joe Pass, considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century.

  • 1927

    A woman takes a seat on the NY Stock Exchange breaking the all-male tradition.

  • 1926

    Michael Bond, author, best known for his series of Paddington Bear children’s books.

  • 1923

    Hitler denounces the Weimar Republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrate in Germany.

  • 1919

    Robert Stack, actor; portrayed Elliot Ness in TV series The Untouchables.

  • California votes to ratify the prohibition amendment.

  • 1900

    To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary decrees German the official language of the Imperial Army.

  • 1862

    President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.

  • 1846

    President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms.

  • 1832

    Horatio Alger, Jr., American children’s author (Ragged Dick, Tattered Tom).

  • 1808

    Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Treasury Secretary, sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

  • 1397

    John of Gaunt marries Katherine Rouet.