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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 29, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    226
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    61
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    81
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    133

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





more events on May 29

  • 1990

    Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.

  • 1974

    President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.

  • 1955

    John Hinckley Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan.

  • 1953

    Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.

  • 1951

    C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single-engine plane.

  • 1942

    The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.

  • 1922

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.

  • Ecuador becomes independent.

  • 1917

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).

  • 1916

    U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.

  • 1913

    The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater.

  • 1911

    The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.

  • 1906

    T.H. White, British writer (The Sword in the Stone).

  • 1903

    Bob Hope, comedian and actor.

  • 1894

    Josef von Sternberg, film director (Blue Angel).

  • Bea Lillie, comic actress.

  • 1880

    Oswald Spengler, German philosopher of history and author of The Decline of the West.

  • 1874

    G.K. Chesterton, English writer.

  • 1862

    Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi.

  • 1849

    A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.

  • 1848

    Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.

  • 1790

    Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.

  • 1736

    Patrick Henry, American revolutionary and governor of Virginia.

  • 1721

    South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England.

  • 1660

    Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth.

  • 1630

    Charles II, king of England (1660-1685).

  • 1453

    Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.