Author Meridel Le Sueur dies in Hudson, Wisconsin. Born in Murray, Iowa, on February 22, 1900, Le Sueur moved with her family to Minnesota when she was twelve. A reporter and the author of novels and short stories, she was blacklisted for being a member of the Communist Party. Her work was rediscovered and heralded by feminists in the 1970s.

Mike O'Dowd, the "Cyclone of St. Paul," defeats Al McCoy to win boxing's middleweight title, which he holds until 1920.

Harrison Salisbury is born in Minneapolis. A reporter and author, he was especially noted for his writing on the Soviet Union, and in 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for international correspondence.

Englishman Jonathan Carver enters Wakan Tipi, the cave and sacred site in present-day St. Paul, long used by Dakota people, that white settler-colonists would come to call by his name (Carver's Cave). Carver writes in his diary: "...came to the great stone cave called by the Naudowessies [Dakota] the House of Spirits. This cave is doubtless a greater curiosity than my short stay and want of convenience allowed me to sufficiently explore."

Police arrest Ronald Reed, a twenty-year-old suspect in an Omaha bank robbery, on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Governor Harold LeVander and St. Paul city councilwoman Rosalie Butler and hold them hostage for exchange with African American political prisoners. Police connect Reed to the Black Panther Party, but Emory Douglass, the Black Panthers' national minister of culture, denies Reed's membership in the party. Reed, an ROTC member at the University of Minnesota, is held in Ramsey County jail on a $150,000 bond, the highest in the state's history.

Jack Morris pitches a ten-inning shutout as the Minnesota Twins beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game of an exciting World Series.

The Morris Fruit Company building in Minneapolis collapses, killing two employees. On November 1, a jury of experts learns that the building had shown signs of rotting and overloading on its third floor and had not been rebuilt after a 1933 fire. Finding no criminal negligence, however, the jury simply calls for stricter enforcement of the building code.

Christopher C. Andrews is born in New Hampshire. An advocate of the application of European forestry principles to American conditions and a persistent sponsor of the preservation of forests for posterity, he served as the state's first chief fire warden and as the commissioner of forestry from 1905 to 1911.

Calvin Griffith decides to move his Washington Senators to Minnesota, where the baseball team is renamed the Minnesota Twins.

Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench, Mayo Clinic doctors, and Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss doctor, are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their development of cortisone.