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January 29

Henry H. Rogers

• 1840 – Henry H. Rogers (pictured), American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway, is born (d. 1909).
• 1873 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway completes its line between Huntington, West Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia.
• 1909 – The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia.
• 2000 – The Termini Station, in Rome, opens.

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