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• 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
• 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam locomotive in Europe to exceed 100mph.

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• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
• 2004 – Turkey begins construction of a tunnel under the Bosporus.

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• 1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
• 2007 – At least 20 people die in a bus crash near Patna, the capital of Bihar state in India.

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• 1955 – The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes.
• 1992 – Canada's largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.

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• 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his railway electrification system.
• 2007 – Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.

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• 1847 – First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile, Quebec quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Great Famine (Ireland) reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season. Over 5000 perish at sea, 5424 are buried on Grosse Ile and thousands die in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston, Ontario.
• 1872 – The Parliament of Canada passes the General Charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR); authorizes private construction of a transcontinental railway.
• 1880 – Andrew Onderdonk sets off a dynamite blast to start construction of the British Columbia portion of the CPR.
• 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States (US) hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
• 1991 – Angry truck drivers blockade Parliament Hill; can't compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US; diesel also 10-20¢ a litre cheaper.
• 2007 – The Alaskan cruise ship Empress of the North strikes an underwater rock on day two of a seven-day tour, and evacuates all 281 passengers on board.

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