Lottery numbers
Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 5-7-8
Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 7-9-36-37-40-42
No winner. Next jackpot: $2.6 million.
Wednesday’s Washington Keno: 4-10-14- 16-20-21-34-39-43-51-56-58-60- 61-62-69-71-74-78-80
Wednesday’s Hit 5: 2-7-30-34-36
No winner. Next jackpot: $260,000.
Wednesday’s Powerball: 12-19-30-34-36 Power Ball: 8
Wednesday’s Wild Card: 3-17-20-28-29 Wild Card: Q♦
Wednesday’s Montana Cash: 6-10-23-26-34
Today in history
1925: A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
1933: Banks began to reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1964: Bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese’s neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.
1980: Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.
1996: A gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
2007: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight prosecutors but said he wouldn’t resign.