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19th century

 * 1865 – The English company John Trevor-Barkley begins construction on the Bucharest-Giurgiu line, the first railroad line built in the territory of Romania.
 * 1866 – Construction of the Randsfjorden Line in Norway is completed to Vikersund.
 * 1873 – The first section of what would become the San Francisco cable car system, the Clay Street Line, opens.
 * 1876 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 * 1882 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway begins operations over the leased Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.
 * 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway tunnel in Boston, the oldest subway tunnel in North America, opens.

20th century

 * 1913 – Howard Elliott succeeds Charles Sanger Mellen as president of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
 * 1981 – Illinois Terminal Railroad is purchased by Norfolk and Western Railroad.

21st century

 * 2003 – Deutsche Bahn takes over operations of Stinnes Group in Germany.

Births

 * 1813 – Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California that helped build the Central Pacific Railroad's portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad (d. 1878).

Deaths

 * 1894 – Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (b. 1818).
 * 2004 – Alastair Morton, chief executive of Eurotunnel 1987-1996, chairman of Strategic Rail Authority 1999-2001, dies (b. 1938).