One of Minnesota's coldest scientifically recorded temperatures is measured at Leech Lake, a low of 59 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) that stood as the minimum extreme until 1996.

The University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture defeats Hamline University 9 to 3 in the world's first intercollegiate basketball game, played on the Hamline campus by nine-man teams, who shot the ball into peach baskets without backboards.

Peter M. Gideon is born near Woodstock, Ohio. A self-educated horticulturist, he developed the Wealthy apple (named for his wife) and other varieties hardy enough to endure the Minnesota climate. Gideon Memorial Park marks his farm on the shore of Lake Minnetonka. He died in 1899.

Two men rob the Shenandoah Pharmacy on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Police officers Carl A. Johnson and C. E. Bettinger shoot twenty-one-year-old Eddie Larson after he fires at them from behind a counter. Johnson wounds nineteen-year-old Fred Sammler, who is rifling through the cash register. Larson dies shortly after arriving at General Hospital, and Sammler later admits that he and Larson had committed several holdups earlier that evening.

Representing the state of Minnesota, a statue of trader and senator Henry M. Rice is unveiled in Statuary Hall in the nation's capitol, Washington, DC.

The Minnesota Federation of Colored Women's Clubs is organized in St. Paul. Popular at the turn of the century, women's clubs were reform and social welfare organizations.

Joseph A. Wheelock is born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. After moving to St. Paul in 1850, he became involved in the newspaper business and helped found the St. Paul Daily Press in 1861, serving as editor of its successor, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, for thirty years. He was also active in the development of St. Paul's parks and boulevards, and Wheelock Parkway is named in his honor. He died in 1906.

Cecil E. Newman, publisher of two African American newspapers in the Twin Cities, dies. Born in Kansas City on July 25, 1903, Newman moved to Minneapolis in 1922 and launched the St. Paul Recorder and the Minneapolis Spokesman in 1934.

Gaa-binagwiiyaas (Which the Flesh Peels Off, also known as John Smith), an Ojibwe man reputed to be 137 years of age, dies at Cass Lake.

Laura Ingalls (Wilder) is born near Pepin, Wisconsin. Her family would settle in Walnut Grove, Redwood County, from 1874 to 1880 (living briefly in Iowa for the year 1876–77). She is remembered for writing the Little House on the Prairie books, which chronicle her family's experiences as pioneers. She died February 10, 1957, in Mansfield, Missouri.