Lottery numbers

Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 8-8-1.

Tues. Keno: 3-5-9-22-24-25-26-30-31- 36-39-41-42-47-54-59-61-67-68-70.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 24-32-37-39-40.

Mega Ball: 44.

Today in history

1778: English navigator Captain James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands.

1788: The first English settlers arrived in Australia’s Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.

1912: English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. (Scott and his party perished during the return trip.)

1943: During World War II, the Soviets announced they’d broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad.

1990: A jury in Los Angeles acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.