The first Minnesota Renaissance Festival opens at Lake Grace in Jonathan. One of the largest of its kind, the festival now operates from a permanent encampment near Shakopee.

How strong was the Galveston, Texas, hurricane of 1900? The remnants of the storm drop 6.65 inches of rain on Minnesota from September 9 to 11.

A group of Minnesota Ojibwe takes a special train to see the Buffalo Bill Wild West show in Ashland, Wisconsin, which in turn causes settler-colonists to come see them.

The University of Minnesota Law School opens with thirty-two students and one faculty member, Dean William S. Pattee.

Presidential candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson address a crowd of 125,000 at the first national Soil Conservation District Field Day and Plow Match, held at a field renamed "Plowville," near Rochester.

Bob Younger dies in the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater, where he is serving a life sentence for his role in the Northfield Bank Raid.

The Minnesota Chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is formed. Temperance unions were dedicated to ending drunkenness.

Duluth's Incline Railway makes its final trip. Built in 1891 for $400,000, it had carried passengers up Seventh Avenue from Superior to Ninth Street, a distance of 2,749 feet.

A forest fire burns Chisholm, causing millions of dollars in damage and leaving 6,000 homeless.

An assassin attempts to murder the Lakota leader Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) at the Grand Opera House in St. Paul. Sitting Bull is there as part of a program, where, incidentally, he meets Annie Oakley.