Father Lucien Galtier arrives in St. Peters (Mendota) to organize a Catholic church. He soon builds a chapel down the river at the settlement that becomes known as St. Paul.

The first baseball game is played at Metropolitan Stadium. The Wichita Braves beat the Minneapolis Millers, 5-3.

In a scene reminiscent of a biblical plague, thousands of frogs overrun Melrose. The Melrose Beacon explains that the frogs' annual migratory pattern runs through town.

Seth Eastman becomes commander of Fort Snelling for a third time, holding the post until May 14.

Paper milling in International Falls begins as eighteen tons of newsprint are manufactured. Paper production remains a major business of the city today.

The University of Minnesota Law School graduates its first class, a total of three men. The following year's graduates number forty-five.

The Minneapolis Base Ball Association is organized, and two days later the team plays Fairbanks of Chicago, winning 4-3.

Forty-seven soldiers at Fort Snelling are confined to the guardhouse for violating orders about visiting the saloon of Henry Menk, near modern Fort Road and Munster Avenue, in St. Paul.

A two-month strike by members of the Graphic Arts International Union is settled when several hundred bookbinders and four Twin Cities-area envelope companies reach an accord about a new two-year contract. The agreement provides hourly pay increases of 45 cents the first year and 50 cents the second year. The strikers had settled earlier with a fifth company.

Dennis J. Banks is born on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation of Ojibwe. An activist for Indigenous rights, he was one of the founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968, along with Clyde and Vernon Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe) and George Mitchell.