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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 08, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    321
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    105
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    216
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    201

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





more events on May 8

  • 1995

    Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.

  • 1984

    The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.

  • 1967

    Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

  • 1958

    President Dwight Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

  • 1952

    Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Crimes of the Heart).

  • Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.

  • 1945

    The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.

  • 1942

    The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.

  • 1940

    Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep).

  • German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.

  • 1937

    Thomas Pynchon, novelist (Gravity’s Rainbow).

  • 1933

    Mahatma Gandhi—actual name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

  • 1930

    Gary Snyder, beat poet.

  • 1928

    Theodore Sorensen, advisor to John F. Kennedy.

  • 1920

    Sloan Wilson, American author (The man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place).

  • 1919

    The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.

  • 1910

    Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist and composer.

  • 1906

    Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director.

  • 1904

    U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.

  • 1895

    Edmund Wilson, American critic and essayist.

  • China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.

  • 1886

    Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.

  • 1884

    Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).

  • 1864

    Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.

  • 1862

    General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.

  • 1846

    The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.

  • 1829

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist.

  • 1828

    Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross and YMCA, first recipient (jointly) of the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • 1794

    The United States Post Office is established.

  • 1753

    Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican nationalist.

  • 1668

    Alain Rene Lesage, French writer (The Adventures of Gil Blas, Turcaret).

  • 1559

    An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.

  • 1541

    Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.

  • 1450

    Jack Cade’s Rebellion–Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.