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19th century

 * 1871 – The Canada Centrail Railway holds an official groundbreaking ceremony at Renfrew for the railroad's section between there and Sand Point, Ontario.
 * 1897 – At the railroad's first stockholder meeting, the Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad. a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, officially changes its name to Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad.

20th century

 * 1906 – The State Street Line, Chicago's last cable car route, ends operations.

21st century

 * 2005 – Heavy rains in Irkutsk damage and washout part of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
 * 2005 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska issues a ruling against Union Pacific Railroad (UP) stating that the railroad's denial of health insurance prescription drug coverage for contraceptives violated Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race or gender.

Births

 * 1818 – J. Gregory Smith, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1866–1872, is born (d. 1891).
 * 1955 – Richard J. Corman, founder and owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, is born (d. 2013).

Deaths

 * 1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (b. 1849).
 * 2012 – Ding Guangen, Minister of Railways for China 1985–1988, dies (b. 1929).