On this day: November 29
POSTED: 11:22 PM MST Nov 28, 2012
UPDATED: 12:00 AM MST Nov 29, 2012
Edison shows off his phonograph, atom bomb testing heads underground, a chimpanzee orbits the Earth, the Pong craze begins, and the world loses another Beatle, all on this day.
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1729: After being ordered out of their village by French commander Sieur de Chépart, who wanted the land to expand his own tobacco plantation, Natchez Indians attack the French colony near the site of modern-day Natchez, Miss., including Fort Rosalie. Warriors kill more than 200 colonists, mostly French men, and take captive more than 300 women, children and slaves.
