What My Selective Service Draft Number In 1972

During the Vietnam War, young men gathered in college dorms and friends' homes to listen to alive Idiot box and radio broadcasts of the U.South. Selective Service System drawing lottery numbers to decide who would and would not exist drafted. The 2010 result of Vietnam magazine revisits those days in the article, "Alive from Washington, It'southward Lottery Night 1969!!"

366 blue plastic capsules contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the starting time Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, 1969. The first birth date fatigued that night, assigned the lowest number, "001," was September 14.

How would Y'all have done?

Find your birthday in the chart beneath to see what order you would accept been called to service. Or: Cheque out our Today in History page for an interactive version of the nautical chart!

How did Prominent Figures do?

Oliver Stone: 113, September 15, 1946
Pat Sajak: 007, October 26, 1946
Bruce Springsteen: 119, September 23, 1949
Sylvester Stallone: 327, July 6, 1946
Samuel Alito: 032, April ane, 1950
Clarence Thomas: 109, June 23, 1948
Dan Quayle: 210, February 4, 1947
Al Gore: 030, March 31, 1948
Neb Clinton: 311, August 19, 1946
George Westward. Bush: 327, July 6, 1946
Billy Crystal: 354, March xiv, 1947
David Letterman: 346, Apr 12, 1947
Tom Daschle: 043, December nine, 1947
Howard Dean: 143, Dec 17, 1948
Tom DeLay: 312, April 8, 1947
Jay Leno: 223, Apr 28, 1950
Rudy Giuliani: 308, May 28, 1944
Stephen King: 204, September 21, 1947
Donald Trump: 356, June fourteen, 1946
OJ Simpson: 277, July 9, 1947
Bill Murray: 204, September 21, 1950

*Some in this list, who were already serving and whose draft status had been resolved, were non affected by the typhoon lottery. Otherwise, every male aged 19 to 26 had a stake in the 1970 draft lottery, as information technology determined the order in which men with nascency dates betwixt 1944 and 1950 were called to written report for consecration in 1970. Some on the to a higher place list were already serving, received pupil or medical deferments, volunteered for other service, or for diverse other reasons were not drafted in 1970.