Actress Loni Anderson is born in St. Paul. She would achieve fame for her role on the television show WKRP in Cincinnati, and, later, her divorce from actor Burt Reynolds would provide reams of material for the tabloids.

Bobby Tufts is elected mayor of Dorset—a symbolic rather than a practical office. He is four years old.

Fighter pilot Richard Bong dies in an airplane explosion in California. Bong had shot down forty Japanese planes during the war, making him America's top ace. The Bong Bridge, which opened October 25, 1984, connects Duluth with Bong's birthplace, Superior, Wisconsin.

The Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers arrive at Paranaque, Luzon, the Philippines, to fight in the Spanish-American War and, later, to combat Filipino patriots led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Upon their return home a year later, the regiment's casualties number forty-four killed and seventy-four wounded.

Humorist Garrison Keillor, creator of A Prairie Home Companion, is born in Anoka.

The Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Ohio names Charles K. Smith, a founder of the Minnesota Historical Society, the master for the first Masonic Lodge in Minnesota. An organizational meeting is held on September 8 in the Central House on Bench Street, St. Paul.

The Dakota transfer land on Pike Island to Pelagie Faribault, wife of Jean Baptiste Faribault. The Faribaults build a house and live on the island until 1826, when they are evicted because, although the land grant was part of a treaty negotiated by Colonel Henry Leavenworth, Congress had never ratified it.

The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, which set the boundary between Canada and the United States, is signed by the United States and Great Britain. The boundary had been in dispute since the end of the American Revolution. Minnesota's curious Northwest Angle is a result of this treaty.

B'nai Abraham Congregation grew out of the Romanian Jewish community that developed in South Minneapolis in the 1880s. The congregation prospered until the neighborhood's Jewish population shrank after World War II. A move to St. Louis Park in the early 1950s rejuvenated membership, and B'nai Abraham merged with Mikro-Tifereth in 1972, creating a new congregation: B'nai Emet.

The product of multiple mergers between some of the Minneapolis area's oldest congregations, B'nai Emet Synagogue held worship services at its St. Louis Park location from 1972 until 2011. The synagogue enjoyed a moment in the spotlight as a shooting location for a 2009 Coen Brothers film before joining with Minnetonka's Adath Jeshurun Congregation in 2011.

Babes in Toyland grew out of the Minneapolis punk scene to become one of the most visible “alternative” bands of the 1990s. In their recordings and live performances, they honed an abrasive, commanding sound that attracted fans from across the United States and Europe.

Bagone-giizhig, known in English as Hole-in-the-Day the Younger, was a charismatic and influential leader who played a key role in relations between the Ojibwe and the U.S. government in Minnesota. Yet he won as many enemies as friends due to his actions during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862 and his claim to be the leader of all Ojibwe. In 1868, Bagone-giizhig was assassinated by a group of other Ojibwe from Leech Lake. For many years the real reason for this killing remained a mystery.