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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 20, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    239
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    170
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    200
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    262

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





more events on March 20

  • 1987

    The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS.

  • 1982

    U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.

  • 1976

    Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.

  • 1969

    Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan.

  • 1965

    President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.

  • 1957

    Shelton ‘Spike’ Lee, film director (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X).

  • 1943

    The Allies attack Field Marshall Erwin Rommel‘s forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa.

  • 1940

    The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.

  • 1939

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court.

  • 1932

    The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule.

  • 1928

    Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood).

  • 1925

    John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon.

  • 1922

    Raymond Walter Goulding, Radio comedian of Bob and Ray fame.

  • President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.

  • 1918

    The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army.

  • 1917

    Dame Vera Lynn , British singer.

  • 1915

    The French call off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front.

  • 1906

    Army officers in Russia mutiny at Sevastopol.

  • 1904

    B.F. Skinner, American psychologist.

  • 1852

    Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.

  • 1841

    Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published.

  • 1828

    Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler).

  • 1815

    Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris and begins his 100-day rule.

  • 1811

    Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt.

  • 1792

    In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine.

  • 1760

    The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

  • 1739

    In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne.

  • 1413

    Henry IV of England is succeed by his son Henry V.

  • 43

    Ovid, Roman poet.