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- January 13
Samuel C. Pomeroy
- 1857 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.
- 1864 – Samuel C. Pomeroy (pictured) succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
- 1883 – Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company, dies (b. 1817).
- 1931 – Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902, dies (b. 1869).
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