Lottery numbers
Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 1-3-7.
Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 3-7-27-30-37-48.
No winner. Next jackpot $8.3 million.
Wednesday’s Washington Lucky for Life: 11-28-66-80.
Wednesday’s Washington Keno: 2-3-5-7-11-19-
20-23-42-44-45-48-51-59-60-66-71-73-76-78.
Wednesday’s Quinto hand: 6•, 5•, K•, Q•, 3•.
No winner. Next jackpot $2 million.
Wednesday’s Powerball: 5-6-12-26-29. Power Ball: 30.
Wednesday’s Wild Card: 7-14-27-29-30. Wild Card: J•.
Wednesday’s Montana Cash: 2-15-16-34-35.
Today in history
On this date:
1888: The poem “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France.
1948: The 200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California was dedicated.
1963: Pope John XXIII died at age 81. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
1965: Astronaut Edward White became the first American to “walk” in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.
1968: Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, known as “The Factory,” by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled militant feminist.
1981: Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after the attempt on his life.
1989: Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.
1989: Chinese army troops began their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.