(modern-day Vivekananda Setu) is opened, carrying rail and road over the Hooghly River in West Bengal between Howrah and Calcutta. Unknown date events Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Factory turns out first Class FD (Felix Dzerzhinsky) 2-10-2 steam locomotive which will become the USSR’s principal freight type, with 3213 being built up to 1942. A wide gauge railway line connecting Estonian towns Tartu and Pechory is opened; thereby Estonian seaports are directly connected to central areas of Russia and Ukraine. Births Unknown date births Nelson W. Bowers, president of the National Railway Historical Society (1983–1987) (died 2004). Deaths January deaths January 13 – Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902 (born 1869). References