Lottery numbers

Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 5-5-9.

Tuesday’s Washington Keno: 3-5-9- 17-9-30-33-36-41- 47-51-54-55-57- 65-73-74-76-77-80.

Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 1-35-53-54-56.

Mega Ball: 44.

Today in history

1943: One of America’s most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

1960: Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service.

1968: During the Vietnam War, Saigon’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph.

1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran after nearly 15 years in exile.

2003: The space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.