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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 September 29, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    151
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    303
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    48
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    196

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





more events on September 29

  • 2009

    An 8.1 earthquake causes a tidal wave that claims 189 lives in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga.

  • 2008

    Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history.

  • 1992

    Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello impeached for corruptions; he was the youngest president in the nation’s history, taking office at age 40 in 1990.

  • 1990

    The YF-22, later named F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

  • 1979

    John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland.

  • 1971

    Oman joins the Arab League.

  • 1968

    Samir Soni, Indian actor, model; in 2012 won Indian Telly Award, Boroplus Gold Award and ITA Award for Best Actor, as well Favorite Drama Actor in India’s People’s Choice Awards.

  • 1966

    Chevrolet introduces the Camaro, which will become an iconic car.

  • 1962

    The popular Argentinian comic strip Mafalda beings publication, in the weekly Primera Plana; focusing on a six-year-old girl (Mafalda) and her friends, it has been called the Argentinian Peanuts.

  • Canada launches its first satellite, Alouette 1.

  • 1960

    General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul, South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee.

  • 1955

    Ann Bancroft, explorer, author; first woman to reach North Pole on foot nd by sled and first woman to cross both polar ice caps.

  • 1951

    Michelle Bachelet, first woman president of Chile (2006-10).

  • 1950

    Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly disrupts a UN General Assembly meeting with his violent outbursts over intervention in the Belgian Congo, US U2 spy planes, and arms control.

  • 1948

    Bryant Gumbel, broadcast journalist; co-host of NBC’s Today (1982-97), for which he won several Emmy Awards.

  • 1947

    Gary Wetzel, US Army soldier awarded Medal of Honor for actions near Ap Dong An during Vietnam War.

  • 1943

    Lech Walesa, president of Poland (1990-95); co-founder of Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc; won Nobel Peace Prize, 1983.

  • Adolf Hitler‘s book Mein Kampf is published in the United States.

  • 1942

    Madeline Kahn, actress, comedian, singer, best known for comedic film roles, especially Mel Brooks’ films Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

  • 1941

    30,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Heinrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other “undesirables.”

  • 1939

    Germany and the Soviet Union reach an agreement on the division of Poland.

  • 1935

    Jerry Lee Lewis, singer, songwriter, musician; influential figure in early rock ‘n’ roll (“Great Balls of Fire”).

  • 1932

    A five-day work week is established for General Motors workers.

  • 1907

    Gene Autry, actor, singer, star of radio, film and TV; known for his film roles as a “singing cowboy” (Oh, Susanna!, Back in the Saddle), he was influential in country music with songs that included “Back in the Saddle,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and “Frosty the Snowman.”

  • 1901

    Enrico Fermi, Italian-born U.S. physicist who led the group which created the first man-made nuclear chain reaction.

  • 1879

    Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the “Meeker Massacre.”

  • 1864

    Union troops capture the Confederate Fort Harrison, outside Petersburg, Virginia.

  • 1850

    Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first governor of the Utah Territory.

  • 1833

    A civil war breaks out in Spain between Carlists, who believe Don Carlos deserves the throne, and supporters of Queen Isabella.

  • 1789

    Congress votes to create a U.S. army.

  • 1758

    Horatio Nelson, British naval commander who defeated the French and her allies on numerous occasions during the age of Napoleon.

  • 1547

    Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist best known for his book The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

  • 1513

    Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.

  • 1493

    Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the new world.

  • 1399

    Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV.

  • 1197

    Emperor Henry VI dies in Messina, Sicily.