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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 15, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    169
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    157
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    319
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    152

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





more events on March 15

  • 1991

    Four Los Angeles police are charged in the beating of Rodney King.

  • 1968

    The U.S. mint halts the practice of buying and selling gold.

  • 1967

    President Lyndon Johnson names Ellsworth Bunker as the new ambassador to Saigon. Bunker replaces Lodge.

  • 1965

    Gamal Abdel Nasser is re-elected Egyptian President.

  • 1960

    Ten nations meet in Geneva to discuss disarmament.

  • 1956

    The first performance of My Fair Lady, starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, takes place on Broadway.

  • 1955

    The U.S. Air Force unveils the first self-guided missile.

  • 1951

    French General de Lattre demands that Paris send him more troops for the fight in Indochina.

  • 1949

    Almost four years after the end of World War II, clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.

  • 1944

    Cassino, Italy is destroyed by Allied bombing.

  • 1939

    Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

  • 1935

    Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda bans four Berlin newspapers.

  • 1934

    Henry Ford restores the $5-a-day wage.

  • 1933

    Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

  • 1916

    Harry James, American band leader and trumpet player.

  • General John Pershing and his 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.

  • 1909

    Italy proposes a European conference on the Balkans.

  • 1904

    Three hundred Russians are killed as the Japanese shell Port Arthur in Korea.

  • 1903

    The British complete the conquest of Nigeria.

  • 1895

    Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, appears before a judge for altering cattle brands.

  • 1892

    New York State unveils the new automatic ballot voting machine.

  • 1864

    The Red River Campaign begins as the Union forces reach Alexandria, La.

  • 1862

    General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near the city of Gallatin, Tenn.

  • 1854

    Emil von Behring, first recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901.

  • 1820

    Maine is admitted as the 23rd state.

  • 1778

    In command of two frigates, the Frenchman la Perouse sails east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around the world.

  • 1767

    Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (1829-1837).

  • 1493

    Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.

  • 933

    Henry the Fowler routs the raiding Magyars at Merseburg, Germany.

  • 44

    Julius Caesar is assassinated by high-ranking Roman Senators.