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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 November 23, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    182
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    193
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    181
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    320

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





more events on November 23

  • 2011

    Yemeni President Ali Abullah Saleh signs a deal to to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests.

  • 2006

    In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people are killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City.

  • 2005

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president of Liberia; she is the first woman to lead an African nation.

  • 1992

    The first Smartphone, IBM Simon, introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  • 1990

    The first all-woman expedition to South Pole sets off from Antarctica on the part of a 70-day trip; the group includes 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese.

  • 1981

    US Pres. Ronald Reagan signs top secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

  • 1980

    Ishmael Beah, authored A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a memoir of his time as a Sierra Leonean child solider in that country’s civil war.

  • In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy.

  • 1968

    Four men hijack an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.

  • 1961

    John Schnatter, businessman; founded Papa John’s Pizza.

  • 1953

    North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking.

  • 1945

    Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States.

  • 1943

    Andrew Goodman, civil rights activist; murdered by Ku Klux Klan in 1964 near Philadelphia, Miss.

  • U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure.

  • 1942

    The film Casablanca premieres in New York City.

  • 1941

    U.S. troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines.

  • 1936

    The United States abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain, which is engulfed by civil war.

  • 1934

    The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty.

  • 1933

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation.

  • 1923

    Gloria Whelan, poet, author primarily known for children’s and young-adult fiction; her novel Homeless Bird won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2000.

  • 1921

    President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

  • 1909

    The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes.

  • 1904

    Russo-German talks break down because of Russia’s insistence to consult France.

  • 1903

    Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.

  • 1897

    Willie “The Lion” Smith, jazz and ragtime pianist.

  • 1888

    Adolph Arthur “Harpo” Marx, American comedian, one of the Marx brothers.

  • 1887

    Boris Karloff, film actor most famous for his role as the monster in the movie Frankenstein.

  • 1878

    Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet who designed the United States’ winning strategy in World War II.

  • 1863

    The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins (also in Tennessee).

  • Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee.

  • 1804

    Franklin Pierce, hero of the American war with Mexico and 14th president of the United States.

  • 1785

    John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time.

  • 1248

    The city of Seville, Spain, surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege.