The Reverend Edward D. Neill's Presbyterian chapel is destroyed in St. Paul's first documented fire.

The St. Paul Saints, at the time a Western League professional baseball team, play their first home game at Aurora Park, beating the Grand Rapids Yellow Jackets 17-0.

The University of Minnesota Law School's one hundredth class graduates with 234 candidates: 98 women and 136 men.

After weeks of rain, a mudslide covers much of Stillwater, destroying barns, shops, homes, and three rafts of lumber but injuring no one. Two cows in a barn keep their feet during the slide, and afterwards they walk out of a second-story window. In all, the slide covers five acres of ground to a depth of one to twenty feet. Prior to the slide, this land had been low and boggy, selling for about $1.25 an acre. After the slide the land is more useable, and its value rises to $500 an acre. Most of the business area of present-day Stillwater is built on this location.

The survey for a road from St. Cloud to Breckenridge begins, following the East Plains trail of the Red River carts. The road later became Highway 52.

General Winfield Scott arrives to inspect Fort St. Anthony. Impressed with what he sees, he suggests that the fort be renamed Fort Snelling for Colonel Josiah Snelling, supervisor of its construction.

Daniel Berrigan is born in Virginia, Minnesota. An author and a radical Catholic priest, Berrigan wrote about social responsibility and played an active role in the antiwar movement during the Vietnam era; later, he protested nuclear armament. His brother Philip, also a radical priest, was born October 5, 1923.

The Dalai Lama Tenzin Guyatso, head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan community worldwide, visits the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota and shares his message of compassion, tolerance, kindness, and peace.

Orville Freeman is born in Minneapolis. He served as the state's governor from 1955 to 1961 and later as US secretary of agriculture. While governor, he responded to the 1959 strike at the Wilson & Company packinghouse in Albert Lea by declaring martial law and closing the plant.

The Flint Furniture factory in Faribault burns. Built in 1856, the factory was the first in the state to manufacture items for wholesale trade.