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19th century

 * 1850 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.

20th century

 * 1956 – Japan Railways completes electrification of the Tōkaidō Main Line, connecting Tokyo Station and Kobe Station, for both freight and passenger service.

21st century

 * 2001 – The Surface Transportation Board releases the final Environmental Impact Statement on Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

Births

 * 1850 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913-1920, is born (d. 1934)

Deaths

 * 1954 – L. B. Billinton, Locomotive Engineer for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1912-1923, dies (b. 1882).