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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 May 06, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    155
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    268
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    50
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    337

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





more events on May 6

  • 1994

    The Channel Tunnel linking England to France is officially opened.

  • 1962

    The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine.

  • 1960

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

  • 1954

    British runner Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile.

  • 1945

    Axis Sally makes her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.

  • 1944

    The Red Army besieges and captures Sevastopol in the Crimea.

  • 1942

    Ariel Dorfman, Chilean writer (Death and the Maiden).

  • General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese.

  • 1941

    Bob Hope gives his first USO show at California’s March Field.

  • 1937

    The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

  • 1931

    Willie Mays, baseball player.

  • 1915

    Orson Welles, actor, director, and writer (Citizen Kane).

  • 1902

    Max Ophuls, film director (La Ronde, Lola Montes).

  • 1895

    Rudolph Valentino, actor, film icon.

  • 1888

    Russell Stover, candy manufacturer.

  • 1877

    Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska. Crazy Horse brought General George Custer to his end.

  • 1868

    Gaston Leroux, French novelist (The Phantom of the Opera).

  • 1864

  • 1862

    Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at age 44.

  • 1861

    Arkansas becomes the ninth state to secede from the Union.

  • 1856

    Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.

  • Robert Edward Peary, arctic explorer and the first man to reach the North Pole.

  • U.S. Army troops from Fort Tejon and Fort Miller prepare to ride out to protect Keyesville, California, from Yokut Indian attack.

  • 1840

    Frederick William Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

  • 1758

    Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary.

  • 1740

    John Penn, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

  • 1682

    King Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles, France.

  • 1529

    Babur defeats the Afghan Chiefs in the Battle of Ghaghra, India.

  • 1527

    German troops begin sacking Rome. Libraries are destroyed, the Pope is captured and thousands are killed.

  • 973

    Henry II, Holy Roman emperor.