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- August 14
![A. A. Sargent](../../../I/Aaron_Augustus_Sargent_-_Brady-Handy.jpg.webp)
A. A. Sargent
- 1887 – Aaron Augustus Sargent (pictured), American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, dies (b. 1827)
- 1900 – Charles Melville Hays succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death.
- 1941 – Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 streamliner trainset is sold for scrap.
- 1995 – Malaysia's first electric commuter train service, the KTM Komuter, begins with 18 EMUs from Jenbacher Transport serving the Kuala Lumpur - Rawang sector.
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