Lottery numbers
Tuesday’s Wash. Daily Game: 6-7-9.
Tuesday’s Keno: 2-3-7-8-10-11- 24-26-31-40-44-46-47-52-53-54- 56-62-78-80.
Tues. Mega Millions: 8-17-20-23-50.
Mega Ball: 17.
Today in history
1866: Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
1946: The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1952: Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
1956: The Andrea Doria collided with the another ship off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 died. (The Andrea Doria sank the following day, eleven hours after the crash.)
1963: The U.S., Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater.
1994: Israel and Jordan signed a declaration ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.