Template:Selected anniversaries/January 29
1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.
1917: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon provides emergency medical services during a series of chemical warfare attacks in western Europe.
1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
1944: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.
1997: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation refuses to disclose private key.
2009: New study links Evil bit release with capacitor plague.