A statue is dedicated in the Ramsey County Courthouse. Sculpted by Swedish artist Carl Milles and later named Vision of Peace, the sixty-ton, thirty-six-foot-tall revolving onyx artwork cost $75,000.

St. Paul's first automobile fatality occurs when a child is struck on Selby Avenue between Dale and St. Albans Streets.

In Eden Prairie, about 150 Ojibwe attack and defeat Shakopee's band of Dakota in the Battle of Shakopee, the final major battle between these tribes in Minnesota.

Dr. Justus Ohage donates Harriet Island, named for schoolteacher Harriet Bishop, to the city of St. Paul.

Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, traveling west to preserve his health, arrives in St. Paul and spends two weeks exploring the flora and fauna of the surrounding area.

After allying with the British during the Revolutionary War, the Dakota leader Wabasha leads 200 Dakota in an attack on Spanish positions at St. Louis.

The Minnesota Twins retire number 34, worn by fan favorite Kirby Puckett.

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, visits Fort Snelling and views points of interest including Bde Maka Ska, Mni Haha (Minnehaha Falls), and Owamniyomni (the Falls of St. Anthony). She is one of the first female tourists to visit the area.

During the grasshopper plague, the state offers a bounty of fifty cents for each gallon of grasshopper eggs collected by this date.

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