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 * January 29


 * 1840 – Henry H. Rogers (pictured), American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway, is born (d. 1909).
 * 1873 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway completes its line between Huntington, West Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia.
 * 1909 – The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia.
 * 2000 – The Termini Station, in Rome, opens.