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19th century

 * 1844 – Boston and Maine Railroad Extension is incorporated due to a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates between Wilmington and Boston.
 * 1847 – The Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opens between Shipley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England.
 * 1863 – Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Germany opens its Szczecin–Pasewalk and Anklam–Pasewalk–Prenzlau–Angermünde lines.

20th century

 * 1906 – New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line extension from 157th Street to 207th Street opens.
 * 1908 – Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway opens its line between Lyle and Vancouver, Washington.
 * 1919 – New York City Subway's IND Culver Line opens between the 18th Avenue and Kings Highway stations.
 * 1995 – Kintetsu increases the maximum train speed on the Suzuka Line in Japan from 65 km/h to 80 km/h but travel time over the entire line between Ise-Wakamatsu Station and Hiratachō Station is decreased by only one minute.
 * 1998 – The Long Island Rail Road closes nearly a dozen stations.

Births

 * 1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, who developed the first practical cable car system for San Francisco, is born (d. 1900).

Deaths

 * 1991 – Richard "Dick" Jensen, who was most known for caretaking Grand Trunk Western USRA 4-6-2 No. 5629, dies at age 59 (b. 1931).
 * 2008 – John Shedd Reed, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1967-1986, dies (b. 1917).