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The first 195 birthdays drawn were later called to serve in the order they were drawn; the last of these was September 24. [19] On December 1, 1969, a second lottery, identical in process to the first, was held with the 26 letters of the alphabet. [20] The first letter drawn was "J", which was assigned number 1. [20]
December 1, 1969: Congressman Pirnie drawing the first number. The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first selection. [1]
On 26 November 1969, President Richard Nixon signed an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 that established conscription based on random selection (lottery). [24] The first draft lottery was held on 1 December 1969; it determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970, for registrants born between 1 ...
October 15, 1969 - Hundreds of thousands of people attend mass protests across the United States for the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War. November 15, 1969 - A second, larger protest takes place in Washington D.C., with an estimated 500,000 people. December 1, 1969 - The first draft lottery since 1942 is held.
U.S. President Nixon signed into law a provision for the first "draft lottery", with random selection of "the dates of the year and then of the letters of the alphabet" to determine which young men would be picked first for military service, with the picks to be made on Monday, December 1. [97]
The first round is set to begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, while the second round is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday. Atlanta has the No. 1 overall pick in the draft for the first time since 1975.
September 14 – Men who were born during the years from 1944 to 1951, and who celebrate their birthdays on this day, mark the occasion without being aware that September 14 will be the first date selected in the new U.S. draft lottery on December 1.
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