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19th century

 * 1843 – Boston and Maine Railroad extends its line to Agamenticus.
 * 1855 – The Hudson and Boston Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad in New York.
 * 1893 – Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

20th century

 * 1945 – The Treuchtlingen railway station in Bavaria is bombed during World War II; with over 600 killed and 1500 injured, it is the worst railroad disaster in German history.

Births

 * 1813 – John Murray Forbes, president of Michigan Central Railroad 1846-1855; president of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, is born (d. 1898).

Deaths

 * 2007 – Robert W. Richardson, American railroad historian, dies (b. 1910).