Lottery numbers

Monday’s Lotto: 01-09-24-28-37-40

No winner. Next jackpot: $1.8 million.

Monday’s Quinto: 5 (spade), 2 (heart), K (diamond), 9 (diamond), Q (club).

No winner. Next jackpot: $1.99 million.

Monday’s Washington Daily Game: 2-4-0.

Monday’s Washington Keno: 03-05-17-21-28-31-34-41-44-46-50- 52-54-59-62-63-67-70-77-80.

Today in history

1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountaintop now known as “Pikes Peak.”

1926: The National Broadcasting Company debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.

1939: President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1940: The first 75,000 men were called to duty under peacetime conscription.

1948: William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after 21 years; he was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent.

1966: The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic.

1969: 250,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.

1982: Funeral services were held in Moscow’s Red Square for the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev.

1985: Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.