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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 04, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    275
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    117
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    283
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    47

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





more events on March 4

  • 1987

    President Reagan takes full responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair in a national address.

  • 1975

    Queen Elizabeth II knights Charlie Chaplin.

  • 1970

    Fifty-seven people are killed as the French submarine Eurydice sinks in the Mediterranean Sea.

  • 1963

    Six people get the death sentence in Paris plotting to kill President Charles de Gaulle.

  • 1952

    North Korea accuses the United nations of using germ warfare.

  • 1944

    Berlin is bombed by the American forces for the first time.

  • 1933

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his first term as president in Washington, D.C.

  • 1932

    Miriam Makeba, South African singer.

  • 1928

    Alan Sillitoe, novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner).

  • 1921

    Warren G. Harding is sworn in as America’s 29th President.

  • 1914

    Doctor Fillatre of Paris, France successfully separates Siamese twins.

  • 1912

    The French council of war unanimously votes a mandatory three-year military service.

  • 1908

    The New York board of education bans the act of whipping students in school.

  • 1904

    Ding Ling, Chinese writer and women’s rights activist.

  • Russian troops begin to retreat toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese advance in Korea.

  • 1901

    Charles Goren, world expert on the game of bridge.

  • William McKinley is inaugurated president for the second time. Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as vice president.

  • 1888

    Knute Rockne, football player and coach for Notre Dame.

  • 1877

    The Russian Imperial Ballet stages the first performance of “Swan Lake” in Moscow.

  • 1861

  • 1852

    Lady (Isabella Augusta) Gregory, Irish playwright, helped found the Abbey Theatre.

  • 1813

    The Russians fighting against Napoleon reach Berlin. The French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.

  • 1801

    Thomas Jefferson becomes the first President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

  • 1797

    Vice-President John Adams, elected President on December 7, to replace George Washington, is sworn in.

  • 1793

    George Washington is inaugurated as President for the second time.

  • 1791

    Vermont is admitted as the 14th state. It is the first addition to the original 13 colonies.

  • 1789

    The first Congress of the United States meets in New York and declares that the Constitution is in effect.

  • 1766

    The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, the cause of bitter and violent opposition in the colonies

  • 1747

    Casimir Pulaski, American Revolutionary War general.

  • 1678

    Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist.

  • 1634

    Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • 1461

    Henry VI is deposed and the Duke of York is proclaimed King Edward IV.

  • 1394

    Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese voyages of discovery

  • 1152

    Frederick Barbarossa is chosen as emperor and unites the two factions, which emerged in Germany after the death of Henry V.