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EVENTS

February events

2006 .

March events

March 3 - The Pacific Railroad , a predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad , is chartered in Missouri .¹

2006 .

March - The governments of 2005 .

August events

August 17 - The Old Guarantee System providing land grants to English companies for Railroad construction in India is finalized.

BIRTHS

October births

October 17 - Sir William Mackenzie , part-owner of the Toronto Street Railway , builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (d. 1923 ).

December births

December 12 - William Kissam Vanderbilt , heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1920 ).

DEATHS

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