Lottery numbers

Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 9-2-5.

Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 1-6-7-24-30-39. No winner. Next jackpot $7.2 million.

Wednesday’s Washington Keno:

2-3-5-6-9-11-12-14-20-22-25- 27-32-33-36-42-62-69-71-78.

Wednesday’s Quinto hand:

2“, A“, K“, 8“, 4“. No winner. Next jackpot $1.85 million.

Wednesday’s Powerball: 10-21-27-33-40. Power Ball: 2.

Wednesday’s Wild Card: 15-16-22-27-28. Wild Card: K“.

Wednesday’s Montana Cash: 1-6-24-27-28.

Today in history

1821: Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.

1925: John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.

1945: A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.

1961: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

1980: A siege at the Iranian embassy in London by armed men demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran ended as British commandos and police stormed the building.

1981: Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in prison.