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19th century

 * 1866 – The Kansas Pacific Railroad tracks reach Manhattan, Kansas, where westward progress stalls while a bridge is built across the Big Blue River.
 * 1883 – The California Southern Railroad receives a court order in its favor ordering the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) to allow it to cross SP tracks at Colton, California.

20th century

 * 1939 – C. P. Couch succeeds his brother Harvey C. Couch as president of Kansas City Southern Railway.
 * 1995 – The first fatal accident on Toronto's subway system, under the auspices of the Toronto Transit Commission, the Russell Hill subway accident, claims three lives.

Births

 * 1869 – Hale Holden, president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1914-1918 and 1920–1929, chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad 1932–1939, is born (d. 1940).

Deaths

 * 1919 – Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, dies (b. 1835).