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19th century

 * 1851 – The Staten Island Railway is incorporated.
 * 1870 – The Texas legislature approves the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) charter, which was originally granted by Kansas, allowing the MKT to build into the state.
 * 1873 – The first prototypes of the San Francisco cable car system are tested at the top of Nob Hill by Andrew Hallidie.

20th century

 * 1932 – The first Soviet Class Ss electric locomotive is introduced for use on the Suramskiy crossing.
 * 1980 – A bomb explodes in the waiting room at Bologna Centrale railway station in Italy killing 85 and injuring more than 200 others. See: Bologna massacre.

Births

 * 1939 – John W. Snow, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CSX Transportation, then United States Secretary of the Treasury.