Legendary sports broadcaster Halsey Hall dies in his Minneapolis home at age seventy-nine. Known for his cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking style, Hall was a broadcaster of Minnesota Twins games for many years and the first to use the phrase "holy cow" during a broadcast. He also coined the adjective "golden" to describe the University of Minnesota's sports teams.

The Armistice Day Blizzard strikes, trapping hunters at lakes and drivers on roads. Forty-nine people die when temperatures suddenly drop from the sixties to below zero. Pilot Max Conrad of Winona earns hero honors for taking his Piper Cub up into fifty-mile-per-hour winds to drop supplies and lead rescuers to trapped hunters.

The American Legion, a veterans organization, holds its first convention, in Minneapolis. The convention begins on November 10 and ends on November 12.

The Athenaeum, a structure dedicated to educational lectures and social events for Germans, opens in St. Paul.

Thirteen New Ulm residents establish the state's first chapter of Turnverein. The Turnverein motto is "a sound mind in a sound body," and members sponsor social, educational, and physical events.

The first US flag in St. Paul is raised on a pole in front of Richard Mortimer's house. Born in England, Mortimer had served successively in both the British and American armies and been a commissary and quartermaster sergeant at Fort Snelling before settling in upper St. Paul. The flag flies briefly and then is cut down by "some wicked scamp" from the lower—and rival—part of town.

The Church of the Good Samaritan (Episcopal) in Sauk Centre holds its first service, the wedding of Miss Nellie A. Barrows and Captain Edward Oakford. The church's stained-glass windows had been donated by a friend of Bishop Henry B. Whipple and brought in by oxcart. The west wall of the church would collapse in 1999, destroying two of the original windows. The wall would be rebuilt and the windows replaced by a set from the recently closed Grace Church in Royalton.

University of Minnesota president James L. Morrill announces that the university will expand westward across the Washington Avenue Bridge into a "blighted area" of Minneapolis. A key part of the plan is a new two-deck bridge.

Roseau County, named for the lake and river in its territory, is established by order of Governor Knute Nelson.

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conductor Dimitri Mitropoulous announces that he has taken a position with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Antal Dorati is hired to replace him.