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19th century

 * 1869 – George Westinghouse files for a patent on his air brake.
 * 1896 – Construction begins on the Northwestern Elevated line of the Chicago 'L' with the first structure erected at the intersection of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenues.

20th century

 * 1933 – San Diego and Arizona Railway's bypass around tunnel 7, which was destroyed by fire, opens.
 * 1980 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.

21st century

 * 2006 – 45 people die near Bioče, Montenegro, in the Bioče train disaster when a local train carrying around 300 people from the town of Bijelo Polje in the north of Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea port of Bar derails above a 100 m-deep ravine above the Morača river.

Births

 * 1799 – Alois Negrelli, builder of the first railway in Switzerland, which connected Zurich and Baden, is born (d. 1858).

Deaths

 * 1896 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, dies (b. 1814).