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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 22, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    337
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    132
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    108
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    259

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





more events on January 22

  • 1982

    President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.

  • 1979

    Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.

  • 1971

    Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.

  • 1944

    U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.

  • 1943

    Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.

  • 1939

    A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.

  • 1932

    Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.

  • 1930

    Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.

  • 1913

    Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.

  • 1912

    Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.

  • 1906

    Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer aviator.

  • 1905

    Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.

  • 1890

    Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • 1879

    Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa.

  • 1874

    D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance).

  • 1863

    In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as the “Mud March.”

  • 1824

    A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.

  • 1813

    During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.

  • 1807

    President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.

  • 1788

    Lord George Byron, English romantic poet (“Lara,” “Don Juan.”)

  • 1689

    England’s “Bloodless Revolution” reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.

  • 1561

    Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, essayist (The Advancement of Learning).

  • 1440

    Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia.