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19th century

 * 1853 – The Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway, a predecessor of Pennsylvania Railroad, is incorporated in Indiana to build from New Castle southeast via Cambridge to the Ohio state line.
 * 1886 – The North Hudson County Railway in New Jersey opens the first elevated cable railway in the United States, the Hoboken Elevated.

20th century

 * 1906 – New Haven Railroad acquires control of Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway and Stafford Springs Street Railway.
 * 1999 – The New York City Transit Authority installs the first MetroCard Vending Machines at two subway stations in the city.

Deaths

 * 1958 – Robert Ralph Young, financier and controlling stockholder of the New York Central commits suicide after suspending company dividends, dies (b. 1897).