Lottery numbers

Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 3-2-0.

Tuesday’s Washington Lucky for Life: 26-39-46-54.

Tuesday’s Washington Keno: 3-5-9-12-19-23-26-28-29-32-35- 52-58-60-62-64-65-67-72-77.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 15-20-43-47-50.

Mega Ball: 24

Today in history

1598: King Henry IV of France endorsed the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to the Protestant Huguenots. (The edict was abrogated in 1685 by King Louis XIV, who declared France entirely Catholic once again.)

1742: George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” had its first public performane, in Dublin, Ireland.

1743: The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Albermarle County, Va.

1870: The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in New York.

1943: President Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.

1958: Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.

1964: Sidney Poitier became the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for playing Homer Smith in “Lilies of the Field.”

1965: 16-year-old Lawrence Wallace Bradford Jr. was appointed by New York Republican Jacob Javits to be the first black page of the U.S. Senate.

1970: Apollo 13, 56 hours after liftoff and four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The three astronauts managed to return safely.)

1986: Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind.

1992: The Great Chicago Flood took place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River.