Lottery numbers
Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 9-2-2.
Thursday’s Washington Keno: 4-5-7- 19-23-26-28-29-33-39-46-53- 54-60-61-65-67-74-75-77.
Today in history
1779: In the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard defeated the HMS Serapis after the American commander, John Paul Jones, declared: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
1780: British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point to the British.
1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1952: Republican vice presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1957: Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.