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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 09, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    317
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    278
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    77
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    321

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





more events on March 9

  • 1986

    Navy divers find the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the astronauts.

  • 1975

    Iraq launches an offensive against the rebellious Kurds.

  • 1968

    General William Westmoreland asks for 206,000 more troops in Vietnam.

  • 1967

    Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin‘s daughter defects to the United States.

  • 1964

    The first Ford Mustang rolls off the Ford assembly line.

  • 1959

    The Barbie doll is unveiled at a toy fair in New York City.

  • 1957

    Egyptian leader Nasser bars U.N. plans to share the tolls for the use of the Suez Canal.

  • 1956

    British authorities arrest and deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He is accused of supporting terrorists.

  • 1947

    Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist (The Bone People).

  • 1943

    Bobby Fischer, first American world chess champion.

  • 1940

    Britain frees captured Italian coal ships on the eve of German Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop’s visit to Rome.

  • 1939

    Czech President Emil Hacha ousts pro-German Joseph Tiso as the Premier of Slovakia in order to preserve Czech unity.

  • 1936

    The German press warns that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections will be arrested.

  • 1934

    Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, the first man to orbit the Earth.

  • 1932

    Eamon De Valera is elected president of the Irish Free State and pledges to abolish all loyalty to the British Crown.

  • 1930

    Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist.

  • 1918

    Frank Morrison Spillane [Mickey Spillane], crime writer (Kiss Me, Deadly, The Erection Set).

  • 1916

    Mexican bandit Pancho Villa leads 1,500 horsemen on a raid of Columbus, N.M. killing 17 U.S. soldiers and citizens.

  • 1915

    The Germans take Grodno on the Eastern Front.

  • 1911

    The funding for five new battleships is added to the British military defense budget.

  • 1910

    Samuel Barber, American composer (“Adagio for Strings,” Vanessa).

  • 1905

    Peter Quennell, biographer.

  • 1892

    Vita Sackville-West, writer.

  • 1890

    Vyacheslav Molotov, former Soviet Prime Minister.

  • 1864

    General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces.

  • 1862

    The first and last battle between the ironclads U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ends in a draw.

  • 1841

    The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in 1839 are freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition.

  • 1839

    The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photo process.

  • 1824

    Leland Stanford, railroad builder, founder of Stanford University.

  • 1820

    Congress passes the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion.

  • 1812

    Swedish Pomerania is seized by Napoleon.

  • 1796

    Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France.

  • 1734

    The Russians take Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.

  • 1617

    The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.

  • 1451

    Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator.