Lottery numbers
Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 0-7-8.
Thursday’s Lucky for Life: 35-45-71-72.
Thursday’s Washington Keno: 3-9-10- 11-12-28-30-37-38-39-40-47-48- 49-50-53-58-63-68-70.
Today in history
1610: The astronomer Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter’s moons.
1789: The first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
1927: Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
1942: The World War II siege of Bataan began.
1953: President Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.
1955: Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.”
1972: Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999: For the second time in history, an impeached American president went on trial before the Senate. President Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice; he was acquitted.