29 March It Happened Today
1792 Swedish King Gustavus III is assassinated.
1853 Birth of Elihu Thomson, English born American inventor, who co-founded the General Electric Company with Thomas Edison.
1869 Birth of British architect Edwin Lutyens.
1871 Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1886 Coca Cola goes on sale for the first time.
1891 George-Pierre Seurat, French painter and developer of the pointillism style, dies.
1918 Birth of American jazz singer Pearl Bailey.