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Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 0-5-1.

Thursday’s Washington Lucky for Life: 10-28-70-77.

Thursday’s Washington Keno: 7-10-14- 29-30-31-35-39-45-46-48-51-54- 58-63-65-67-75-76-80.

Today in history

1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

1942: the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Americans won a major victory over the Japanese.)

1948: Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

1984: Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared a wandering satellite in history’s first space salvage. The Palapa B-2 satellite was secured in Discovery’s cargo bay for return to Earth.

2001: An American Airlines Airbus A300-600, en route from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, crashed 103 seconds after takeoff, killing 265 people.