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20th century

 * 1905 – New Haven Railroad completes the property acquisition of Greenwich Tramway, Suffield Street Railway and Branford Lighting and Water Company.
 * 1986 – Two high-speed trains collide near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, in the Colwich rail crash (pictured); the driver of one of the two trains was the only fatality of this accident.
 * 1997 – In the Southall rail crash, the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator passes a red signal (SPAD) and collides with a freight train leaving its depot, shortly before 1320 local time.

Births

 * 1810 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–80, is born (d. 1892).
 * 1882 – Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of Southern Railway in Great Britain 1937–48, is born (d. 1970).
 * 1952 – George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998–2002, executive director of NJ Transit 2002–07, is born (d. 2007).