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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 October 06, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    87
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    78
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    6
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    41

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





more events on October 6

  • 2007

    Explorer and author Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

  • 2000

    Yugoslavia’s president Slobodan Milosevic and Argentina’s vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices.

  • 1995

    Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.

  • 1987

    Fiji becomes a republic independent of the British Commonwealth.

  • 1981

    Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.

  • 1973

    Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

  • 1969

    Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges.

  • 1966

    Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin.

  • 1965

    Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.

  • 1948

    Gerry Adams, Irish politician who was an important figure in Northern Ireland’s peace process; president of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland’s second-largest political party, since 1983.

  • 1941

    German troops renew their offensive against Moscow.

  • 1931

    Riccardo Giacconi, Italian astrophysicist ; won Nobel Prize in Astrophysics for his pioneering contributions that led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.

  • 1927

    The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.

  • 1917

    Fannie Lou Hamer, US civil rights advocate; became vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

  • 1914

    Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer.

  • 1908

    Sammy Price, jazz pianist.

  • Carol Lombard, American comediennne and actress.

  • 1906

    Janet Gaynor, film actress.

  • 1895

    Caroline Gordon, writer (The Strange Children).

  • 1887

    Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city planner.

  • 1866

    The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000.

  • 1847

    Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

  • 1846

    George Westinghouse, prolific inventor, held over 100 patents on creations including air brakes for trains.

  • 1820

    Jenny Lind, soprano known as the "Swedish Nightingale."

  • 1801

    Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland.

  • 1788

    The Polish Diet decides to hold a four year session.

  • 1696

    Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance.

  • 1536

    William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France.

  • 1014

    The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops.