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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 June 03, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    301
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    135
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    54
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    245

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





more events on June 3

  • 1974

    Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice.

  • 1969

    74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

  • 1965

    Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

  • 1952

    A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea is put down by American troops.

  • 1942

    Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island.

  • 1940

    The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

  • 1938

    The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”

  • 1936

    Larry McMurtry, novelist (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment).

  • 1928

    Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin dies as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.

  • 1926

    Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl).

  • 1923

    In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.

  • 1922

    Alain Resnais, French film director.

  • 1918

    The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany.

  • 1906

    Josephine Baker, dancer and singer.

  • 1904

    Charles R. Drew, American physician, researcher of blood plasma.

  • 1888

    The classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

  • 1864

    Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.

  • 1861

    Union troops defeat Confederate forces at Philippi, in western Virginia

  • 1808

    Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America.

  • 1804

    Richard Cobden, English economist and politician.

  • 1726

    James Hutton, Scottish scientist, pioneer in the field of geology.

  • 1539

    Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.

  • 1098

    Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.