Catholic bishop John Ireland dedicates the organ in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Faribault.

A fire destroys much of the business section of Morristown, Rice County, burning twenty buildings, including a bank, post office, and hotel.

Farmers in Clarks Grove, Freeborn County, form a dairy cooperative. This co-op is not the state's first, but its success would inspire other communities to use Clarks Grove's organizational system and its bylaws, which were written in Danish, as a model.

Kentucky Congressman James Proctor Knott delivers the speech "The Glories of Duluth" in Congress, mocking the city in an effort to defeat a bill granting land to the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. Duluth's citizens appreciate the free publicity, however, and the town of Proctor is named for him.

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) announces the invention of a machine for the mass recording of magnetic audio tape.

Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, serving with the American Expeditionary Force, is the first enlisted man deployed to Europe in World War II.

St. Paul's Mansion House hotel burns to the ground after a fire starts in the kitchen and there is a delay in getting enough hose for a steam fire engine."The circumstances . . . strongly point to incendiarism as the cause," remarks the St. Paul Pioneer, noting that a fire set in the same place nearly destroyed the hotel in fall 1865.

William Rubin, former president of Flight Transportation Corporation of Eden Prairie, and Janet Karki, his chief financial officer, are found guilty by a federal jury in St. Paul of perpetrating "the largest financial fraud in Minnesota's history" by engineering a sale of about $25 million in stock for a mostly fictitious company.

Milton Reynolds, an Albert Lea native who became a millionaire by his astute and early mass production and promotion of a new type of ball-point pen in the 1940s, dies in Chicago.

The three-day trial of Lake Charles resident Ben Shock, charged with not having a license for his beagle, begins. Declaring a case of mistaken identity, Shock claims that his beagle had died and that the license fee collector had seen him with another beagle. Shock refuses to pay bail and is jailed for thirty days while the judge ponders the case, finally ruling that Shock had been wronged and should be set free.