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Monday’s Washington Daily Game: 1-7-0.

Monday’s Lucky for Life: 9-19-37-73.

Monday’s Washington Keno: 3-4-10-12- 16-23-25-29-32-35-42-44-45-59-65- 66-70-72-75-77.

Today in history

1535: Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.

1777: During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga.

1854: The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.

1917: During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

1923: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.

1944: 169 people died in a fire that broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1945: President Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.

1957: Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.

1967: The Biafran War erupted. (The war, which lasted two and a-half years, claimed some 600,000 lives.)

1989: The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

1994: Fourteen firefighters were killed while battling a several-days-old blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.