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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 July 07, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    50
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    365
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    354
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    285

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





more events on July 7

  • 1981

    Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

  • 1969

    The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon.

  • 1966

    The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.

  • 1943

    Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.

  • 1941

    Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany’s hands.

  • 1940

    Ringo Starr, musician, one of the Beatles.

  • 1927

    Christopher Stone becomes the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he plays records for the BBC.

  • 1925

    Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.

  • 1906

    Leroy “Satchel” Page, baseball pitcher.

  • 1887

    Marc Chagall, French painter and designer.

  • 1863

    Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.

  • 1860

    Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor.

  • 1853

    Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation.

  • 1815

    After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris.

  • 1814

    Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverley is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.

  • 1807

    Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte.

  • 1798

    Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria.

  • 1795

    Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.

  • 1791

    Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church.

  • 1777

    American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.

  • 1752

    Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, textile industry pioneer.

  • 1742

    A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony’s British defenders. The battle decides the fate of a colony.