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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 05, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    28
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    233
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    78
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    230

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





more events on June 5

  • 2004

    Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93. Reagan was the 40th president of the United States.

  • 1973

    Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected mayor of Compton, California.

  • 1968

    Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s victory in the pivotal California primary election.

  • 1967

    The Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins.

  • 1956

    Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.

  • 1949

    Ken Follett, novelist (Eye of the Needle, On The Wings of Eagles).

  • 1947

    David Hare, British playwright and director (A Map of the World, Slag).

  • Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines “The Marshall Plan,” a program intended to assist European nations, including former enemies, to rebuild their economies.

  • 1944

    The first B-29 bombing raid strikes the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.

  • 1940

    The German army begins its offensive in Southern France.

  • 1939

    Margaret Drabble, English novelist (The Millstone, The Realms of Gold).

  • 1932

    Christy Brown, Irish novelist and poet (My Left Foot).

  • 1926

    David Wagoner, poet and novelist (The Escape Artist).

  • 1919

    Richard Scarry, Children’s author and illustrator.

  • 1915

    Alfred Kazin, critic and editor (A Walker in the City).

  • 1900

    British troops under Lord Roberts seize Pretoria from the Boers.

  • 1898

    Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist.

  • 1884

    Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, British author.

  • 1883

    John Maynard Keynes, economist.

  • 1880

    Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley marries Sam Starr even though records show she was already married to Bruce Younger.

  • 1878

    Francisco “Pancho” Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader.

  • 1872

    The Republican National Convention, the first major political party convention to include blacks, commences.

  • 1863

    The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic.

  • 1856

    U.S. Army troops in the Four creeks region of California, head back to quarters, officially ending the Tule River War. Fighting, however, will continue for a few more years.

  • 1851

    Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era.

  • 1827

    Athens falls to Ottoman forces.

  • 1794

    The U.S. Congress prohibits citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.

  • 1783

    Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make the first public balloon flight.

  • 1723

    Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist.

  • 1637

    American settlers in New England massacre a Pequot Indian village.

  • 1595

    Henry IV’s army defeats the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.

  • 1568

    Ferdinand, the Duke of Alba, crushes the Calvinist insurrection in Ghent.

  • 1099

    Members of the First Crusade witness an eclipse of the moon and interpret it as a sign they will recapture Jerusalem.