Lottery numbers

Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 5-5-6.

Tuesday’s Washington Keno: 9-10-11-13- 18-21-22-24-25-31-37-38-41-45-47- 50-65-66-73-80.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 8-16-21-25-27.

Mega Ball: 16.

Today in history

1953: Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

1965: The great Northeast blackout occurred as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and two Canadian provinces without electricity.

1989: Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.

2000: George W. Bush’s lead over Al Gore in all-or-nothing Florida slipped beneath 300 votes in a suspense-filled recount, as Democrats threw the presidential election to the courts, claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our history.”