Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street is published. In 1930, the Sauk Centre native would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Actress Ethel Barrymore appears in the play Sunday, which runs through October 25 in St. Paul.

Daily mail delivery begins in Cannon City.

The Minnesota Historical Society is incorporated by an act of the territorial legislature, and Alexander Ramsey is elected its first president.

The northern boundary of the United States is set at the forty-ninth parallel of latitude, extending from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

A statue of Governor John A. Johnson, sculpted by Andrew O'Connor, is unveiled in St. Paul on the grounds of the Minnesota capitol.

Otto Wonnigheit and Charles Irmisch are hanged for murder in the Federal Courts Building (now the Landmark Center) in St. Paul.

The Agriculture School of the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus, which was known as University Farm, opens with forty-seven students and W. W. Pendergast as principal.

At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Duluth, an organizational meeting is held to establish a new hospital in the city. Named for today's feast of St. Luke, the hospital is set up in an old blacksmith's shop, and the first patient is admitted on November 18.

Land in central Minnesota is set aside for the Mamaceqtaw (Menominee). The tribe decides not to move from their holdings in Wisconsin and cedes the proposed reservation to the state on May 5, 1854.