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19th century

 * 1836 – The Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad, the first steam railroad in Florida, opens.
 * 1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Dodge City, Kansas.
 * 1876 – The first through train from San Francisco, arrives in Los Angeles, after traveling over the Southern Pacific Railroad's newly completed Tehachapi Loop.

20th century

 * 1986 – The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad begins operations in Minnesota and South Dakota.

21st century

 * 2001 – The extension of Minsk Metro's Avtozavodskaya Line connecting Avtozavodskaya to Mogilevskaya opens.

Births

 * 1887 – Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (d. 1945).

Deaths

 * 2004 – Nelson W. Bowers, president of the National Railway Historical Society 1983-1987 (b. 1931).