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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 25, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    67
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    3
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    121
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    35

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





more events on July 25

  • 1984

    Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk.

  • 1978

    The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.

  • 1944

    Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.

  • 1943

    Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.

  • 1941

    The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets.

  • 1935

    Barbara Harris, actress.

  • 1934

    Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis.

  • 1927

    Midge Decter, writer and editor.

  • 1924

    Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.

  • 1914

    Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty.

  • 1909

    French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.

  • 1907

    Johnny Hodges, jazz musician.

  • 1902

    Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and philosopher (The True Believer, Before the Sabbath),

  • 1894

    Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea.

  • 1880

    Morris Raphael Cohen, American philosopher and mathematician.

  • 1867

    President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming.

  • 1861

    The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress.

  • 1853

    David Belasco, actor, playwright and producer.

  • 1850

    Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast.

  • 1848

    Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of England (1902-1905).

  • 1845

    China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.

  • 1844

    Thomas Eakins, American painter.

  • 1814

    British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada.

  • 1799

    On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.

  • 1759

    British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.

  • 1587

    Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.

  • 1564

    Maximilian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

  • 1394

    Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.

  • 326

    Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices.