** New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway

** New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway

** CPCS is also advising the Government of Jordan in the privatization of the Aqaba Railway Corporation, running from Ma ' an to Aqaba.

** Metropolitan District Railway – green

** Central London Railway – blue

** City and South London Railway – black

** Great Northern and City Railway – orange

** Metropolitan Railway – red

** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines

** Docklands Light Railway: normally abbreviated DLR, this is the automatically driven light rail network in east London, although actual operation and maintenance is undertaken by a private sector franchisee.

** Waterloo Interchange ( Hutt Central ) Railway Station

** The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the BNSF Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U. S. history.

** The Settle-Carlisle Railway in England is opened to passenger traffic.

** The Swansea and Mumbles Railway in South Wales, at this time known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

** Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Elizabeth II.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

** George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer ( b. 1857 )

** The Turkestan-Siberia Railway is completed.

** The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.

** The Bavarian Ludwig Railway opens between Nuremberg and Fürth, with a train hauled by Der Adler (" The Eagle "), the first railway in Germany.

** Stratford International station, a main line railway and Docklands Light Railway station in the London Borough of Newham

** Redwood Railway Station

** Brest Railway Museum, the first outdoor railway museum in Belarus

** Air fans ( hovercraft, air boat )

** Automobile air conditioning, air conditioning in a vehicle

** Solar air conditioning, air conditioning using solar power

** Ice storage air conditioning, air conditioning using ice storage

** Atmospheric dispersion modeling, mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere

** Diego and Jaquez in The Castle of Otranto – they appear to talk about random things, and argue foolishly with each other in order to lighten the air of the novel.

** Decreased concentration of oxygen in inspired air.

** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.

** Republic Airlines, a regional air carrier affiliated with US Airways

** Compressed air energy storage ( CAES )

** Cryogenic liquid air or nitrogen

** The terrestrial region, according to Aristotle, consisted of concentric spheres of the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire.

** The open flute family, in which the player's lips form a stream of air that goes directly from the players lips to the edge, such as transverse flutes and end-blown flutes.

** The closed flute family, in which the musical instrument has a channel to form and direct the air stream over an edge.

** Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** An air crash in Indonesia ( likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area ) kills 235 people ( see Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 ).

** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.

** ( 12: 30 a. m .) – B-17 Flying Fortress air crash near Auckland.

** Carole Lombard, American actress ( air crash ) ( b. 1908 )

** WWII: The British House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.