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19th century

 * 1834 – Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.

20th century

 * 1905 – The Halifax and South Western Railway opens, connecting Halifax to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Births

 * 1814 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896).
 * 1830 – Thomas Fremantle, director for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway beginning in 1868 and chairman of same 1896–1908, is born (d. 1918).

Deaths

 * 2001 – O. Winston Link, American photographer who documented the end of steam locomotive use on the Norfolk and Western Railway (pictured) in the 1950s, dies (b. 1914).