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19th century

 * 1859 – The organization that is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway railroad purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad.
 * 1860 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.
 * 1873 – Construction begins on Clay Street in San Francisco, California, for the first cable railway in the world, the Clay Street Hill Railroad (later to become part of the San Francisco cable car system).

20th century

 * 1912 – Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad (predecessor of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad) begins "one-car" passenger service directly to the Chicago Loop.
 * 1916 – Lake Superior and Ishpeming (LS&I) 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type No. 29(Or No. 14 at the time) was pulling an iron ore train down a 1.6% grade outside of Negaunee, when it and several of it's hoppers rolled down on their sides on a steep embankment. The reason for this significance is because No. 29 is now the only LS&I steam locomotive to ever experience a catastrophic accident and still live to pull another train.
 * 1917 – New York City Subway's IRT Jerome Avenue Line opens.
 * 1982 – The Soo Line purchases the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railroad in Minnesota.

21st century

 * 2005 – Railroad workers across France go on strike to demand better wages and jobs. The strike, which began at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, is expected to last through 6:00 GMT Friday.  Nearly 40% of all TGV schedules are dropped for the duration of the strike.
 * 2005 – Chris Green, CEO of Virgin Trains since 1992, announces that he will join the Board of Directors for Network Rail; his resignation from Virgin is scheduled for September 2005. Green began his railroad career with British Rail in 1965.
 * 2008 – An unexploded bomb from World War II is found near where the District and Hammersmith & City lines cross the Prescott Channel, not far from Bromley-by-Bow tube station, causing disruption to trains.

Deaths

 * 1943 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (b. 1853).