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Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 3-6-9.

Thurs. Lucky for Life: 11-61-62-70.

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Today in history

1542: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

1832: The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore.

1881: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

1924: 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago.

1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic.

1956: The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

1968: The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)

1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.