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Monday’s Lotto: 21-22-33-34-36-37

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Monday’s Washington Daily Game: 1-9-2

Monday’s Washington Keno: 4-10-20- 23-34-35-38-39-45-47-49-52-53- 56-61-62-64-65-68-70

Monday’s Hit 5: 9-21-22-29-39

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Today in history

1607: English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. (The colonists went ashore the next day.)

1846: The United States declared that a state of war already existed with Mexico.

1917: Three children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.

1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were introduced with a face value of 24 cents. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was printed upside-down; the “inverted Jenny,” as it came to be called, instantly became a collector’s item.)

1940: In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

1954: President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.

1958: Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, were spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

1968: A one-day general strike took place in France in support of student protesters.

1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.