The dwellings in Swede Hollow, a St. Paul immigrant neighborhood, are burned after the city health department declares them contaminated.

After a sensational trial, Harry T. Hayward is hanged in a Minneapolis jail for the murder of Katherine Ging, owner of a fashionable dressmaking establishment. He had arranged for her to be killed so that he could collect her life insurance money.

Henry M. Rice easily replaces Henry H. Sibley, who chose not to run for re-election, as Minnesota Territory's delegate to Congress. Sibley had won the office by a narrow margin in a previous election following a heated campaign involving fur-trade interests, with "fur" symbolized by Sibley and "anti-fur" by Alexander M. Mitchell, the candidate supported by Rice.

During Alexander Ramsey's term as mayor of St. Paul, the city council establishes its first professional fire department, which succeeds a volunteer hook and ladder company and inherits its equipment, including an engine, ladders, ropes, hooks, and axes, as well as a church bell donated by the Reverend Edward D. Neill.

The Grand Opera House in Minneapolis hosts the first American performance of the English translation of Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena.

The Target Center arena opens in Minneapolis.

Author Kathleen Winsor is born in Olivia. Her novel Forever Amber, published in 1944, would be banned in Boston because of its sexual content. With that publicity, it became a best seller.

Celebrating Minnesota Day at the World's Fair in Chicago, twenty thousand of the state's residents view exhibits of the state's resources and hear the First Minnesota Regiment's band.

Marcelina Anaya Vasquez, founder in 1970 of the Migrant Tutorial program, dies. Working in St. Paul's west side, Vasquez trained bilingual tutors to assist migrant children with their English reading and writing skills. The St. Paul school district had taken over her successful program in 1978.

The first car of iron ore travels from Mountain Iron to Duluth and assays at 65 percent iron. Minnesota would lead the country in iron ore production for many years, and iron, in the form of taconite, is still a major export.