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19th century

 * 1857 – The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.

21st century

 * 2005 – Lalu Prasad, India's Railway Minister, presents his Rs.532 billion ($12 billion) budget for Indian Railways for 2005-06. The network of more than 9,000 passenger trains will not increase passenger fares, will add 46 new trains, increase frequencies on 10 others and plans to inaugurate new high speed train service between New Delhi and Kolkata and another between New Delhi and Chennai.

Deaths

 * 1874 – Asa Whitney, developer of the process of annealing railroad car wheels that enabled trains to safely increase both loads and speed, dies (b. 1791).
 * 1896 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road, dies (b. 1827).
 * 1906 – Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway, dies (b. 1836).