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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on August 14.
Events
19th century
- 1900 – Charles Melville Hays succeeds Collis P. Huntington as president of the Southern Pacific Railroad after Huntington's death.
20th century
- 1941 – Union Pacific Railroad's M-10001 streamliner trainset is sold for scrap.
- 1945 – Kyōbashi Station becomes one of the last sites to be bombed in Japan during World War II when a one-ton bomb directly strikes the Katamachi Line platform as part of the bombing of Osaka, killing 700 to 800 evacuees.
- 1995 – Malaysia's first electric commuter train service, the KTM Komuter, begins with 18 EMUs from Jenbacher Transport serving the Kuala Lumpur - Rawang sector.
21st century
Births
Deaths
- 1887 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician who authored the first Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad, dies (b. 1827)
References
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