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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 March 26, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    170
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    121
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    122
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    24

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

What happened today

1832

Famed western artist George Catlin begins his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone.

Famous birthdays

1930

Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

more events on March 26

  • 1992

    An Indianapolis court finds heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson guilty of rape.

  • 1989

    The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.

  • 1982

    Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

  • 1979

    The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.

  • 1969

    Writer John Kennedy Toole commits suicide at the age of 32. His mother helps get his first and only novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published. It goes on to win the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.

  • The Soviet weather Satellite Meteor 1 is launched.

  • 1961

    John F. Kennedy meets with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Washington to discuss increased Communist involvement in Laos.

  • 1954

    The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.

  • 1953

    Dr. Jonas Salk announces a new vaccine against polio.

  • Eisenhower offers increased aid to the French fighting in Indochina.

  • 1951

    The United States Air Force flag design is approved.

  • 1950

    Senator Joe McCarthy names Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.

  • 1942

    Erica Jong, poet, novelist (Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life).

  • The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.

  • 1938

    Hermann Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria.

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