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1991 Event - Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike

1991 Event - Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.

1989 Death - Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81

1988 Death - George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90

1986 Event - Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)

1982 Event - National railroad strike in Belgium

1979 Event - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

1971 Event - Amtrak Railroad begins operation

1968 Event - Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central

1967 Death - Edward Hopper, U.S. painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84

1955 Event - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike

1954 Event - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)

1948 Birthday - Don Brewer, born in Flint, Michigan, musician, drummer, performed with Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, Silver Bullet Band and rock band Grand Funk Railroad

1948 Birthday - Donald Brewer, born in Flint, Michigan, rock drummer, Grand Funk Railroad

1944 Event - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers

1944 Event - Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers

1944 Event - U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux

1943 Event - Burma railroad completed and opens

1941 Event - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres

1932 Event - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City

1931 Event - 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad

1928 Event - Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands

1924 Event - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam

1923 Event - Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike

1923 Event - Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad

1923 Event - Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker

1917 Event - U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work day for railroad employees

1907 Event - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa

1905 Event - Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world, New York - Chicago in 18 hours

1903 Event - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"

1903 Event - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)

1903 Event - Dutch railroad workers strike

1900 Event - World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens

1899 Event - Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000

1898 Birthday - George Alpert, railroad executive

1897 Event - Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars

1893 Event - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features

1889 Birthday - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union

1884 Event - 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria

1882 Birthday - Edward Hopper, U.S. painter, House by the Railroad

1879 Event - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii

1877 Event - 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations

1877 Event - U.S. Army breaks railroad strike

1877 Event - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9

1877 Event - General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still

1877 Event - U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction

1876 Event - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1873 Event - Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal

1873 Event - Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad

1867 Event - Refrigerated railroad car patented by J. B. Sutherland

1867 Event - 1st U.S. elevated railroad begins service, New York City

1864 Event - Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)

1864 Event - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days

1864 Event - Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad

1864 Event - Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad

1863 Event - Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars

1863 Event - Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad

1862 Event - U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad

1860 Event - 1st railroad reaches Kansas

1860 Event - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco

1853 Event - Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal

1853 Event - Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad

1853 Event - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape

1853 Event - Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress

1850 Birthday - Henry Edwards Huntington, U.S., railroad executive

1849 Event - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad)

1848 Event - New Haven Railroad opens

1840 Event - Housatonic Railroad opens

1839 Event - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)

1838 Event - Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake

1838 Birthday - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur, Great Northern Railroad

1836 Birthday - Jay Gould, U.S. railroad executive, financier

1834 Event - 1st railroad tunnel in U.S. completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)

1832 Event - 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies

1831 Event - 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC

1830 Event - 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)

1830 Event - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1830 Event - 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)

1829 Event - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore

1827 Event - 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered

1826 Event - 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts

1825 Event - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England

1825 Event - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)

1822 Birthday - Charles S Crocker, President of Central and South Pacific Railroad

1821 Birthday - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad

1815 Event - New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens)

1809 Event - 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia

1794 Birthday - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire, B and O railroad

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