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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 January 16, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    121
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    136
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    74
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    309

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





more events on January 16

  • 1991

    The Persian Gulf War begins. The massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq — Operation Desert Storm — ends on February 28, 1991, when President George Bush declares a cease-fire, and Iraq pledges to honor future coalition and U.N. peace terms.

  • 1979

    The Shah leaves Iran.

  • 1975

    The Irish Republican Army calls an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast.

  • 1965

    Eighteen are arrested in Mississippi for the murder of three civil rights workers.

  • 1956

    The Egyptian government makes Islam the state religion.

  • 1945

    The U.S. First and Third armies link up at Houffalize, effectively ending the Battle of the Bulge.

  • 1944

    Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.

  • 1942

    Japan’s advance into Burma begins.

  • 1940

    Hitler cancels an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium.

  • 1939

    Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for an extension of the Social Security Act to include more women and children.

  • 1933

    Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist (The Style of Radical Will, Illness as a Metaphor).

  • 1920

    Allies lift the blockade on trade with Russia.

  • The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.

  • 1914

    Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence.

  • 1909

    Ethel Merman, U.S. singer and actress, the “Queen of Broadway.”

  • One of Ernest Shackleton‘s polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.

  • 1900

    The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.

  • 1865

    General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.

  • 1847

    John C. Fremont, the famed “Pathfinder” of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California.

  • 1821

    John C. Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President, Confederate Secretary of War.

  • 1786

    The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.

  • 1757

    Samuel McIntire, architect of Salem, Massachusetts.

  • 1749

    Vittorio Alfieri, Italian tragic poet (Cleopatra, Parigi shastigliata).

  • 1547

    Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow.