On this day: November 29
POSTED: 1:22 AM Nov 29 2012
UPDATED: 2:00 AM Nov 29 2012
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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.
- Caffeinated toothbrush in the works
- Google Maps leads kidnapped boy home
- Giant mechanical animals stalk theme park
- Man finds $4.8M lotto ticket in cookie jar
- An election decided by the flip of a coin
- Buckets of KFC smuggled into Gaza
- Man wins lottery four times
- Watt's grandson steals spotlight at Holder hearing
- Hindu deity on mural sparks Ten Commandments request
