The Minnesota Vikings football team plays its first game, beating the Chicago Bears 37-13 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.

Warren E. Burger is born in St. Paul. As chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986, his major opinions would include the decision requiring President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes and his dissent in the Bivens case, attacking the exclusion of illegally seized evidence.

Civil War veterans of Company B of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment form the Last Man's Club, meeting yearly at the Sawyer House in Stillwater. They preserve a bottle of wine to be opened by the last survivor, who would be Charles M. Lockwood, the sole attendee of the 1930 banquet.

Rene Boucher, the Sieur de La Perriere, lands on Lake Pepin's western shore with plans to build a military post. Fort Beauharnois is built and the Mission of St. Michael the Archangel, the first Christian mission in Minnesota, is established on a site near present-day Frontenac.

Henry Charles Boucha is inducted into US Hockey Hall of Fame. An Ojibwe man born in Warroad on June 1, 1951, Boucha had been a star player on the US Olympic team and had played professional hockey for the Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota North Stars. After an eye injury forced him to retire, he served as coordinator of the Warroad Public Schools Indian Education Department.

At the grand opening of a co-op in Mississippi (Minnesota), customers consume forty-five gallons of Red Star coffee and eighty-five dozen biscuits.

Macalester College opens its St. Paul campus. Originally known as Baldwin School, it had been renamed for Charles Macalester. Macalester owned the Winslow House, a hotel in Minneapolis where classes were first held. Macalester agreed to donate the hotel to the college in 1874.

Englishman George Featherstonhaugh reaches Fort Snelling. He had been hired by the US War Department to explore the geology of the Upper Midwest. He continues up the Minnesota River to Lake Traverse, and in 1847 he published the book A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor.

The First National Bank of St. Paul is organized, the first Minnesota bank chartered under the national banking act of 1863. Derived from a private bank owned by Parker Paine, it would eventually lose its name through a series of mergers, although there is still a First National Bank Building in St. Paul.

T. Eugene Thompson, a lawyer who helped to draft Minnesota's 1963 revised criminal code, begins serving a life sentence in the Minnesota State Prison for hiring a man to kill his wife, Carol.