What happened on your birthday?

What’s Your Vietnam War Draft Lottery Number?

The Vietnam War draft lottery ran from 1969 to 1972. If you were born on October 25, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    176
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    17
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    138
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    9

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

What happened today

1923

The Teapot Dome scandal comes to public attention as Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, subcommittee chairman, reveals the findings of the past 18 months of investigation. His case will result in the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, and later Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, the first cabinet member in American history to go to jail. The scandal, named for the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved Fall secretly leasing naval oil reserve lands to private companies.

Famous birthdays

1889

Abel Gance, film director (Napoleon).

more events on October 25

  • 2009

    Terrorist bombings in Baghdad kill over 150 and wound over 700.

  • 2001

    Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant; heiress apparent to the Belgian throne.

  • 1991

    The last soldiers of the Yugoslav People’s Army leaves the Republic of Slovenia.

  • 1984

    Katy Perry, singer, songwriter; (“Part of Me”; “Roar”) named Billboard magazine’s Woman of the Year 2012.

  • 1983

    1,800 U.S. troops and 300 Caribbean troops land on Grenada. U.S. forces soon turn up evidence of a strong Cuban and Soviet presence–large stores of arms and documents suggesting close links to Cuba.

  • 1971

    Midori Goto, violinist.

  • United Nations expels the Republic of China and seats the People’s Republic of China.

  • 1970

    Adam Pascal, actor, singer (Rent; Aida).

  • 1964

    Nicole, German singer, won 1982 Errovision Song Contest singing “Ein biBchen Frieden” (“A Little Peace”); the English version reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

  • 1962

    In South Africa, civil rights activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

  • Adlai Stevenson shows photos to the UN Security Council that prove Soviet missiles have been installed in Cuba.

  • 1960

    Martin Luther King, Jr., is sentenced to four months in jail for a sit-in.

  • 1958

    The last U.S. troops leave Beirut.

  • 1957

    Nancy Cartwright, voice actress; voice of Bart Simpson and other characters in the long-running animated TV series The Simpsons.

  • 1954

    President Eisenhower conducts the first televised Cabinet meeting.

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