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Thursday’s Wash. Daily Game: 0-0-8.

Thursday’s Keno: 3-5-7-10-11-19- 22-23-27-29-34-35-38-51-56-65- 67-70-73-77.

Today in history

1947: Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute.

1783: Gen. George Washington issued his Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States near Princeton, N.J.

1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a declaration supporting a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.

1948: President Truman surprised the experts by being re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

1959: Game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he’d been given questions and answers in advance when he appeared on NBC’s “Twenty-One.”

1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a coup.

1976: Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford.