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19th century

 * 1857 – George S. Griggs is awarded for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

20th century

 * 1938 – The second section of the Itō Line, connecting Ajiro to Itō in Japan, opens.
 * 1940 – The local tracks on New York City Subway's IND Sixth Avenue Line are opened.
 * 1972 – Amtrak introduces the Vacationer passenger train service between New York City and Miami, Florida.

21st century

 * 2002 – All first-class cars on the TGV become non-smoking cars.

Deaths

 * 1898 – Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (b. 1845).
 * 1954 – Ernest Lemon, Chief Mechanical Engineer (1931-1932) and later Vice President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, dies (b. 1884).