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Events

 * 1997 – Full freight and passenger service is restored through the Channel Tunnel, just short of two months after a devastating fire.
 * 2005 – A Norfolk Southern train carrying a few carloads of hazardous materials (including chlorine gas) collides with a parked train in Graniteville, South Carolina, causing the Graniteville train disaster.

Births

 * 1854 – William N. Page, American civil engineer who built the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Virginian Railway, is born (d. 1932).

Deaths

 * 1872 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (b. 1834).
 * 1901 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator car operators (b. 1832).