Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú of Guatemala visits the Twin Cities as a guest of the Minneapolis American Indian Center.

African American leaders in the Twin Cities reject an offer to establish an "all-Negro" unit of the Minnesota National Guard. The group tells state adjutant general Ellard A. Walsh that it cannot accept the offer as a matter of principle. Walsh had proposed forming a truck company so that Minnesota's African Americans could take advantage of a provision in the draft law that exempted guardsmen from the draft.

At the federal courthouse in St. Paul, White Earth Ojibwe leader Darrell "Chip" Wadena and others are convicted of corruption and vote-buying charges. Wadena is sentenced to four years in prison.

Herbert Huse Bigelow, of the Brown and Bigelow publishing firm, is sentenced to three years in prison for income tax evasion. He had long argued that an income tax punished initiative, and he had expected to be fined rather than jailed for his transgression.

The Discoverer, a Danish passenger ship, calls at Duluth. No international passenger ships would return to Minnesota for twenty-two years.

Captain Gerhard Folgero and his forty-two-foot Viking ship Leif Erickson sail into Duluth, completing a voyage from Norway. The ship was later displayed in a Duluth park.

Duluth celebrates its first Svenskarnas Dag, the Swedish midsummer festival, with a parade, music, and speeches. St. Paul would follow suit in 1933 to bring together its own residents of Swedish descent.

Adolph O. Eberhart is born in Sweden. He would become Minnesota's seventeenth governor upon the death of John A. Johnson in 1909 and would be elected to the office in 1910. During his tenure he would sign into law a direct primary bill. He died on December 6, 1944.

Three windstorms hit Fergus Falls on the same day, leaving fifty-nine dead.

The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment departs Fort Snelling for Washington, DC, eventually finding both glory and death in the Civil War.