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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 28, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    223
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    95
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    215
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    45

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





more events on March 28

  • 1999

    An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.

  • 1990

    Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush.

  • 1986

    The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.

  • 1979

    A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

  • 1969

    Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.

  • 1962

    The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.

  • 1946

    Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina. He will hold the office for six years.

  • 1945

    Germany launches the last of its V-2 rockets against England.

  • 1942

    A British ship, the HMS Campbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.

  • 1941

    English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body will not be found until April 18.

  • The Italian fleet is routed by the British at the Battle of Battle of Cape Matapan

  • 1939

    The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.

  • 1936

    Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).

  • 1933

    Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

  • 1930

    Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks.

  • Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.

  • 1929

    Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan’s Notes).

  • 1921

    President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.

  • 1917

    The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain’s first official service women.

  • 1910

    The first seaplane takes off from water at Martiniques, France.

  • 1909

    Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side).

  • 1908

    Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.

  • 1895

    James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross.

  • 1885

    The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.

  • 1868

    Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist.

  • 1864

    A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.

  • 1862

    Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22).

  • 1854

    Britain and France declare war on Russia.

  • 1818

    Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War.

  • 1774

    Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.

  • 1652

    Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.