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19th century

 * 1831 – The Boston and Providence Railroad is incorporated and chartered to build a railroad connection between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
 * 1856 – Illinois Central Railroad opens Great Central Station in Chicago.

20th century

 * 1959 – Soo Line 2719 hauls the last of Soo Line Railroad's steam locomotive-powered trains in revenue service on a round-trip excursion between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Ladysmith, Wisconsin.
 * 1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in the largest corporate bankruptcy in United States history thus far. The trains continue to run.

Deaths

 * 1893 – Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, dies (b. 1824).
 * 2015 – Tama_(cat),a cat that stationmaster ob Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Japan,dies.