Louis Warren Hill, second son of James J. Hill, is sued by seven of his nine siblings over his inheritance of the family's North Oaks farm and Burlington Northern railroad bonds totaling $750,000, all a gift from his mother, Mary T. Hill, shortly before her death. The "Allied Siblings" allege that their mother was not of sound mind and that Louis had intimidated her into bequeathing the legacy.

Photographer Edward A. Bromley is born in New Haven, Connecticut. Considered the first regular newspaper staff photographer in the United States, Bromley would be connected with the Minneapolis Journal and the Minneapolis Times and would emphasize the importance of photographs in illustrating news stories and chronicling historic events. He died in 1925.

The Czecho-Slovanic Benefit Society, known as CSPS, a free-thought fraternal organization, is formed in St. Paul.

President John F. Kennedy speaks at the University of Minnesota at Duluth on the subject of high unemployment in the northern Great Lakes area, where joblessness was about twice the national average.

Arne Carlson is born in New York City. He would serve as the state's thirty-seventh governor. Among his achievements would be an innovative solution to the school voucher issue: a $1,000-per-child tax credit for families earning less than $35,000 per year.

Dr. Justus Ohage performs the nation's first successful gall bladder surgery, at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul.

In the first State Baseball Championship, the St. Paul North Stars beat the Hastings Vermillion 43-35.

The library of the Ramsey County Medical Society is established when Dr. Eduard Boeckmann donates the profits from his development of an improved method of preparing catgut for surgical use.

Zebulon Pike meets with a group of Mdewakanton Dakota led by Ta Oyate Duta (His Red Nation, also called Little Crow, grandfather of the warrior of 1862) and Wanyanka Nazin (He Sees Standing Up). Pike leaves the meeting with what he sees as their permission to take 100,000 acres of their land. The agreement, however, is an informal one—not an official treaty—and is never proclaimed by a US president.

A near-riot occurs in the grandstand of the Minnesota State Fair during a Civil War reenactment. The mock battle breaks all previous attendance records for a grandstand event, with 80,000 people in the stands (and 20,000 more on Machinery Hill). The event is fraught with fears of the grandstand collapsing, fights for seats, and injuries from the mock battle itself. Agricultural Society secretary H. E.