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19th century

 * 1866 – Bristol and Exeter Railway opens the Chard and Taunton Railway to passenger service as a branch line of the B&ER.

20th century

 * 1972 – Revenue service begins on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in the San Francisco Bay Area.

21st century

 * 2001 – The Port Authority Trans-Hudson station and tunnel under the World Trade Center are destroyed and the next closest station, Exchange Place (pictured), is closed due to flooding, both as a result of the September 11 attacks.

Births

 * 1813 – John Chester Craven, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1847-1870, is born (d. 1887).
 * 1814 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, is born (d. 1897).
 * 1884 – Robert Eastman Woodruff, president of Erie Railroad 1939-1949, is born (d. 1957).

Deaths

 * 1915 – William Cornelius Van Horne, who oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was the youngest superintendent of the Illinois Central Railroad, dies (b. 1843).