Lottery numbers

Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 7-2-5.

Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 15-18-25-26-36-41.

No winner. Next jackpot: $3.5 million.

Wednesday’s Washington Keno: 1-13-18- 19-23-25-27-30-32-35-36-39-52 57-58-64-66-67-76-77.

Wednesday’s Quinto hand: 10 (spade)-J (heart)-A (diamond)-3 (diamond)-7 (club).

No winner. Next jackpot: $820,000.

Wednesday’s Powerball: 5-10-17-24-43. Power Ball: 31.

No winner. Next jackpot $155 million.

Wednesday’s Wild Card: 3-15-16-17-25. Wild Card: A (diamond).

Wednesday’s Montana Cash: 5-7-19-31-35.

Today in history

1789: Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the Department of State.

1866: Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1953: The Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

1974: The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Nixon’s impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a “course of conduct” designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

1976: Air Force veteran Ray Brennan became the first person to die of so-called “Legionnaire’s Disease” following an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.

1980: On day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.

1995: The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.