Noted socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs speaks at a rally in Camden Park, Minneapolis. Praising Russia's Soviet government, he encourages the crowd of 5,000 to support unions and set their sights on industrial democracy.

Actress Jane Russell is born in Bemidji.

Robert Kennedy dies at age eighty-eight in St. Paul. He was vice president of the Stillwater Convention, which initiated the creation of Minnesota Territory.

Minneapolis's theatrical scene begins in earnest with the dedication of the Pence Opera House at Second Street and Hennepin Avenue. The opening performance is a joint concert by the Minneapolis Musical Union and the St. Paul Musical Society. The first play, The Hunchback, opens three days later.

Hundreds of Dakota and Ojibwe meet with the US government at Fort Snelling for payments of treaty annuities. While there, they participate in dances and foot races.

Dave and John Kunst and their mule, Willie-Make-It, set out from their Waseca home to walk around the earth. In Afghanistan, bandits attack the brothers, killing John and wounding Dave. Dave's brother Pete then joins him until they reach the Indian Ocean. Dave returns to Waseca on October 5, 1974, the first person to walk around the earth, 14,450 miles in all.

William A. Hazel, an African American architect, files suit after the Clarendon Hotel in St. Paul refuses to rent him a room.

Alexander Faribault is born in Prairie du Chien (present-day Wisconsin) to Jean-Baptiste Faribault and his wife, Pelagie Faribault, a métis woman of Dakota and French descent. Alexander became an influential fur trader and politician in the 1840s.

In response to a federal law mandating that all Dakota be removed from the state as punishment for the US–Dakota War of 1862, 1,310 captives at Fort Snelling, mostly women and children, are loaded onto two steamboats to be transported to a reservation on Crow Creek in southeastern Dakota Territory. Soon after arriving at the reservation, many would die of disease and hunger.

A baseball game is cancelled at Metropolitan Stadium due to snow accumulation of one inch, the latest snow-out in Minnesota Twins history.