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19th century

 * 1859 – At a meeting of the Drammen chairmanship in Norway, construction of a railway line to connect Drammen and Randsfjorden, now known as the Randsfjorden Line, is selected over the option for a channel.
 * 1892 – Western Maryland Railroad's line from Hagerstown, Maryland, over the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to Cherry Run, West Virginia, opens.

20th century

 * 1978 – The longest tunnel in New Zealand, through the Kaimai Ranges, opens to traffic.

Deaths

 * 1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, president of the New York Central system, dies (b. 1843).
 * 1911 – John Souther, founder of Globe Locomotive Works, dies (b. 1816).