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19th century

 * 1830 – Ground is broken in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first railroad to use steam locomotives in South Carolina.
 * 1871 – The government of Victoria, Australia, reopens Essendon railway station, Melbourne, for service.
 * 1882 – The first train from Cincinnati, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway, departs for Dayton, Ohio.
 * 1899 – Hull Electric purchases the Aylmer–Hull, Quebec line which it had been operating under a lease agreement from Canadian Pacific Railway.

20th century

 * 1994 – Chicago Transit Authority closes the Chicago "L" Green Line for a linewide renovation and rehabilitation project.

21st century

 * 2003 – Following its purchase of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and its subsidiaries, operations begin on the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway in New England, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Deaths

 * 1843 – William Hedley, English engineer who designed and built Puffing Billy in cooperation with Timothy Hackworth (b. 1773).
 * 1917 – Frank W. Arnold, a Grand Master and Secretary-Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (b. 1851).