Lottery numbers
Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 7-4-3
Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 2-4-7-17-39-46.
No winner. Next jackpot: $2.3 million.
Wednesday’s Washington Keno: 4-6-7-8- 12-16-22-30-31-40-45-49-50-53-56- 61-64-69-77-79
Wednesday’s Hit 5: 2-8-25-27-36.
No winner. Next jackpot: $470,000.
Wednesday’s Powerball: 11-16-18-21-51. Power Ball: 16
Wednesday’s Wild Card: 9-19-21-29-30. Wild Card: Q♠
Wednesday’s Montana Cash: 6-12-15-19-27
Today in history
1521: Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms to face charges stemming from his religious writings. (He was later declared an outlaw by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.)
1524: Giovanni da Verrazano reached present-day New York Harbor.
1861: The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
1941: Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War II.
1961: About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
1964: Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang at the New York World’s Fair.
1969: A jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
1970: The astronauts of Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft.
2003: U.S. special forces in Baghdad captured Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of and adviser to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The U.S. government awarded Bechtel Corp. a major contract for helping rebuild Iraq’s power, water and sewage systems.