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Wed., June 23, 2004

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Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 5-3-8.

Tuesday’s Washington Lucky for Life: 12-36-41-49.

Tuesday’s Washington Keno: 5-9-12-16-19- 20-24-26-28-31-35-39-45-54-60-68-70- 71-76-79.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 9-10-17-41-52.

Mega Ball: 19

Today in history

1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his “Type-Writer.”

1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

1967: President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J.

1969: Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief U.S. justice by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

1972: President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)

1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 80.

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