Lottery numbers
Monday’s Lotto: 21-22-33-34-36-37
No winner. Next jackpot: $4.1 million.
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
No winner. Next jackpot: $230,000
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.