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October 21


 * 1821 – Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California, is born (d. 1900).
 * 1844 – Albert Alonzo Robinson (pictured), vice president and general manager of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is born (d. 1918).
 * 1903 – Howard Elliott succeeds Charles Sanger Mellen as president of Northern Pacific Railway.
 * 2004 – The first railroad conductors graduate from British Columbia Institute of Technology's 32-week course.