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19th century

 * 1872 – The Columbus and Toledo Railroad is incorporated.
 * 1881 – Albert Bowman Rogers on his birthday discovers the pass through the Rocky Mountains that would bear his name, Rogers Pass.

20th century

 * 1978 – The first section of the Frankfurt U-Bahn City Tunnel from the central station to Hauptwache opens.
 * 1990 – An Alaska Railroad train derails 19 tank cars near Dunbar. Approximately 170,000 gallons of diesel and jet fuel are spilled; the cleanup efforts last nearly three weeks.
 * 1994 – The 1960s-era booking hall at Canning Town railway station in London is demolished.

21st century

 * 2014 – The Wuhan Metro Line 1 Hankou North extension opens.

Births

 * 1829 – Albert Bowman Rogers, American surveyor who found Rogers Pass for the Canadian Pacific Railway, is born (d. 1889).

Deaths

 * 2005 – Benjamin Biaggini, president of Southern Pacific Railroad 1964-1976 (b. 1916).
 * 2013 – Isabel Benham, American railroad financial expert, dies (b. 1909).