Lottery numbers

Tuesday’s Wash. Daily Game: 2-8-2.

Tuesday’s Keno: 3-5-9-16-22-31- 32-36-40-41-48-52-53-54-56-62- 68-70-73-80.

Tues. Mega Millions: 5-29-35-52-53.

Mega Ball: 9.

Today in history

1769: Frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore Kentucky.

1929: The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence

1948: The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.

1981: Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq.

1998: In a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas. (Three white men were later convicted.)