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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 12, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    133
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    210
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    52
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    115

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





more events on May 12

  • 1975

    The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez is seized by Cambodian forces.

  • 1969

    Viet Cong sappers try unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam.

  • 1949

    The Berlin Blockade ends.

  • 1943

    Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

  • 1942

    The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine.

  • 1940

    The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Musee River.

  • 1936

    Frank Stella, painter.

  • Tom Snyder, newscaster and television host.

  • 1935

    Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by “Bill W.,” a stockbroker, and “Dr. Bob S.,” a heart surgeon.

  • 1933

    Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky, Russian poet.

  • 1932

    The body of Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found.

  • 1926

    The Airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

  • 1925

    Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter Berra), baseball player and coach.

  • 1921

    Farley Mowat, Canadian nature writer (Never Cry Wolf).

  • 1915

    Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

  • 1907

    Katherine Hepburn, actress (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen).

  • 1885

    In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against the Canadian government.

  • 1881

    Tunisia, in North Africa becomes a French protectorate.

  • 1865

    The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory.

  • 1864

  • 1863

    With a victory at the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, Union General Ulysses S. Grant closes in on Vicksburg.

  • 1851

    The Tule River War ends.

  • 1828

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter.

  • 1820

    Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer.

  • 1816

    Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, lawyer and architect.

  • 1812

    Edward Lear, poet, painter and the youngest of 21 children.

  • 1780

    Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces.

  • 1641

    The chief advisor to Charles I, Thomas Wentworth, is beheaded in the Tower of London

  • 1588

    King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city.

  • 254

    St. Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.