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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 March 03, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    267
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    207
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    170
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    220

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





more events on March 3

  • 1999

    Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.

  • 1973

    Japan discloses its first defense plan since World War II.

  • 1969

    Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.

  • 1952

    The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.

  • 1945

    Finland declares war on the Axis.

  • 1942

    The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris.

  • 1941

    Moscow denounces the Axis rule in Bulgaria.

  • 1940

    A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.

  • 1939

    In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule.

  • 1931

    President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.

  • 1927

    Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.

  • 1926

    James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies).

  • 1923

    The first issue of Time magazine is published. It’s editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale.

  • 1920

    Robert Searle, cartoonist.

  • 1919

    Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington.

  • 1918

    Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.

  • The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia.

  • 1916

    Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons).

  • 1911

    Jean Harlow, (Hell’s Angels, Dinner at Eight).

  • 1905

    The Russian Czar agrees to create an elected assembly.

  • 1895

    Matthew Ridgway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea.

  • 1878

    Russia and the Ottomans sign the Treaty of San Stefano, granting independence to Serbia.

  • 1877

    Rutherford B. Hayes, the republican governor of Ohio is elected president, his election confirmed by an electoral commission after disputed election the previous November.

  • 1873

    William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.

  • 1863

    President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.

  • 1861

    The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.

  • 1857

    Under pretexts, Britain and France declare war on China.

  • 1847

    Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices.

  • 1845

    Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.

  • 1831

    George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car.

  • 1817

    The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans is opened.

  • 1803

    The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.

  • 1791

    Congress passes a resolution authorizing the U.S. Mint; legislation creating the mint will be passed on Apr. 2, 1792.