A special act of the state legislature releases Jim and Cole Younger from the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater. They had been incarcerated for the murder of an employee during the Northfield Bank Raid. Jim would commit suicide in St. Paul, but Cole would tour on a Wild West show with Frank James, lecturing on "What My Life Has Taught Me." He died in 1915, his body still holding seven bullets.

Horace W. S. Cleveland is born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. A visionary landscape architect, he designed parks and boulevards in the Twin Cities, including Como Park, St. Anthony Park, Minnehaha Park, Summit Avenue, and the drives along the Mississippi River.

Beardsley sets a state record for high temperature: 114 degrees. Moorhead equaled it on July 6, 1936.

The Minneapolis Public Library opens, with Herbert Putnam as librarian. Under an agreement with the Minneapolis Athenaeum, the public library board provides a building and staff to lend the Athenaeum's books, thereby making them available to the citizens of Minneapolis.

The Rice County Historical Society acquires the Alexander Faribault House, which it maintains as a historic site in Faribault. The house was the first built in Rice County, at the confluence of the Cannon and Straight Rivers.

Minneapolis architect Leroy S. Buffington, the "Father of the Skyscraper," patents a construction method involving a steel skeleton that allows structures to be built to any height.

Forestville State Park is formally dedicated, having been open to the public since 1968.

In Metropolitan Stadium's first sellout game, the Minnesota Twins lose a doubleheader to Cleveland before a crowd of 30,999.

During the Minneapolis teamsters' strike, violence erupts between picketers blocking trucks driven by non-unionists and an army hired by the Citizens Alliance, a union of local employers. Thirty Minneapolis policemen and a number of army deputies are hospitalized after the brawl.

Mark Twain visits St. Paul while compiling research for his book Life on the Mississippi, which he publishes the following year.