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19th century

 * 1849 – The Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is chartered in Missouri.
 * 1859 – Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the present day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur.

20th century

 * 1944 – More than 500 people die of carbon monoxide poisoning in the Balvano train disaster in Italy when a steam locomotive-hauled train stalls in a tunnel.
 * 1986 – Shin-Narashino Station, on what is now JR East's Keiyō Line in Narashino, Chiba, Japan, is opened.
 * 1997 – Union Pacific Railroad reopens the former Western Pacific Railroad Feather River Canyon line in California after repairs are made from flooding that occurred in January.

Births

 * 1831 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, and founder of the Pullman Company, is born (d. 1897).