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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 29, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    349
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    277
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    266
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    283

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





more events on January 29

  • 1991

    Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.

  • 1984

    The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.

  • President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.

  • 1979

    President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.

  • 1967

    Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.

  • 1950

    Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.

  • 1944

    The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.

  • 1942

    German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.

  • 1931

    Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin’s aide.

  • 1929

    The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.

  • 1926

    Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • 1918

    The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.

  • 1880

    W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).

  • 1865

    William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.

  • 1861

    Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.

  • 1843

    William McKinley, 25th President of the United States.

  • 1813

    Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.

  • 1737

    Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).