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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 06, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    76
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    245
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    186
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    211

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





more events on November 6

  • 1999

    Australia’s voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament.

  • 1995

    The Rova of Antananarivo, home of Madagascar’s sovereigns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.

  • 1988

    Emma Stone, actress (Zombieland, Spiderman).

  • 1986

    The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration.

  • A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LRR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport; 45 people are killed, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash to date (2013).

  • 1985

    Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia’s Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices.

  • 1976

    Pat Tillman, professional football player who ended his career to enlist in the US Army in the aftermath of the 9 / 11 attacks; he was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, Apr. 22, 2004.

  • 1973

    Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan.

  • 1955

    Maria Shriver, journalist, author; First Lady of California while married to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  • 1948

    Glenn Frey, singer, songwriter, musician; a founding member of the band Eagles.

  • 1946

    Sally Field, actress; won Academy Award for Best Actress in 1979 (Norma Rae) and 1984 (Places in the Heart); won 3 Emmys for work in television.

  • 1945

    The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

  • 1941

    Guy Clark, Texas country-folk singer, songwriter (“Desperados Waiting for a Train,” “Texas 1947”).

  • 1931

    Mike Nichols, film and stage director (The Graduate).

  • 1923

    As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks.

  • 1921

    James Jones, American novelist (From Here to Eternity).

  • 1917

    The Bolshevik “October Revolution” (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.

  • 1911

    Maine becomes a dry state.

  • 1892

    Harold Ross, New Yorker editor.

  • 1891

    Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas.

  • 1887

    Walter Johnson, baseball pitcher, “The Big Train.”

  • 1863

    A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia.

  • 1861

    James Naismith, Canadian physical education instructor who, in 1891, invented the game of basketball.

  • Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.

  • 1860

    Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States.

  • 1854

    John Philip Sousa, “The March Master,” American bandmaster and composer. Among his 140 marches are “Stars and Stripes Forever” and “Semper Fidelis.”

  • 1851

    Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist who (with Edward D. Jones) inaugurated the Dow-Jones averages.

  • 1814

    Adolphe Sax, instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone.

  • 1812

    The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow.

  • 1429

    Henry VI is crowned King of England.