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19th century

 * 1868 – Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

20th century

 * 1935 – Isaryō Station, on what would become the JR East Yonesaka Line, opens in Oguni, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
 * 1970 – United States President Richard Nixon signs into law a bill that creates Amtrak to take over the burden of passenger train operations in America.
 * 1972 – The driver of a fast train does not notice a stop signal due to heavy fog and collides with another train in Schweinsburg-Culten, East Germany. 22 die and 70 are injured.
 * 1983
 * Amtrak launches a rebranded, thrice-weekly Auto Train using much of the same equipment and the same route as the train operated by Auto-Train Corporation.
 * Amtrak discontinues the commuter-oriented Chesapeake between Washington and Philadelphia.

Births

 * 1828 – Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works, is born (d. 1887).
 * 1881 – Charles E. Johnston, president of Kansas City Southern Railway 1928-1938, is born (d. 1951).