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EVENTS

1857 – Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded for a railroad Scale .

1864 – Samuel C. Pomeroy succeeds Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway .

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DEATHS

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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