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19th century

 * 1831 – The Boston and Worcester Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in Massachusetts.

20th century

 * 1979 – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway in Sydney.

21st century

 * 2004 – Madrid Metro orders 698 new subway cars valued at &euro;1 billion; the order is shared by Bombardier and Siemens.

Deaths

 * 1899 – Henry B. Plant, president of the Plant System of railroads, dies (b. 1819).
 * 2010 – Michael Cobb, British railway historian, dies (b. 1916).