January 29th
1688 - Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher
1810 - Birth of Ernst Kummer, German mathematician
1846 - Birth of Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1926 - Birth of Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1934 - Death of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1947 - Birth of Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1953 - Birth of Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist who faked stem cell research.