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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on June 4.
Events edit
19th century edit
- 1857 – The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.
20th century edit
21st century edit
- 2005 – Lalu Prasad, India's Railway Minister, presents his Rs.532 billion ($12 billion) budget for Indian Railways for 2005-06. The network of more than 9,000 passenger trains will not increase passenger fares, will add 46 new trains, increase frequencies on 10 others and plans to inaugurate new high speed train service between New Delhi and Kolkata and another between New Delhi and Chennai.
Births edit
Deaths edit
- 1874 – Asa Whitney, developer of the process of annealing railroad car wheels that enabled trains to safely increase both loads and speed, dies (b. 1791).
- 1896 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road, dies (b. 1827).
- 1906 – Francis Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway, dies (b. 1836).