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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 24, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    59
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    177
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    337
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    62

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





more events on January 24

  • 1982

    A draft of Air Force history reports that the U.S. secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War.

  • 1980

    In a rebuff to the Soviets, the U.S. announces intentions to sell arms to China.

  • 1965

    Winston Churchill dies from a cerebral thrombosis at the age of 90.

  • 1951

    Indian leader Nehru demands that the UN name Peking as an aggressor in Korea.

  • 1946

    The UN establishes the International Atomic Energy Commission.

  • 1945

    A German attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest is finally halted by the Soviets.

  • 1931

    The League of Nations rebukes Poland for the mistreatment of a German minority in Upper Silesia.

  • 1927

    British expeditionary force of 12,000 is sent to China to protect concessions at Shanghai.

  • 1915

    The German cruiser Blücher is sunk by a British squadron in the Battle of Dogger Bank.

  • 1911

    U.S. Cavalry is sent to preserve the neutrality of the Rio Grande during the Mexican Civil War.

  • 1903

    U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Herbert create a joint commission to establish the Alaskan border.

  • 1862

    Edith Wharton, U.S. novelist who wrote Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence.

  • 1848

    Gold is discovered by James Wilson Marshall at his partner Johann August Sutter’s sawmill on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma, California.

  • 1732

    Pierre de Beaumarchais, French dramatist (The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro).

  • 1722

    Czar Peter the Great caps his reforms in Russia with the “Table of Rank” which decrees a commoner can climb on merit to the highest positions.

  • 1712

    Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, noted for his social reforms and leading Prussia in military victories.

  • 1639

    Representatives from three Connecticut towns band together to write the Fundamental Orders, the first constitution in the New World.

  • 1458

    Matthias Corvinus, the son of John Hunyadi, is elected king of Hungary.

  • 41

    Shortly after declaring himself a god, Caligula is assassinated by two Praetorian tribunes.