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19th century

 * 1844 – Cobble Hill Tunnel in New York City opens; it is now the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

20th century

 * 1901 – The 3.5 km long first part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway, is opened.
 * 1967 – The New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited is discontinued just before the railroad's merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the Penn Central Transportation Company.

Births

 * 1859 – Vincent Raven, chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922 (d. 1934).