Christened by Rose Marie Schaller of Hastings, the battleship Minnesota is launched at Newport News, Virginia.

The Red River crests in Moorhead, and the floodwaters drive 300 people from their homes.

The People's Lobby occupies part of the state capitol while demonstrating for a depression relief bill. Two hundred protestors heckle legislators and spend the night in the senate chamber.

A tornado kills three individuals as it moves from Lake Minnetonka to Minneapolis and Fridley and into Chisago County.

Richard Eberhart is born in Austin. A poet and teacher, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems: 1930–1965 in 1966.

The Bohemian Reading and Educational Society of McLeod County orders a set of Czech readers. The society met regularly for more than sixty years, usually in Bohemian Hall, located between the towns of Silver Lake and Hutchinson.

Minnesota goes dry! The citizens of the territory approve a prohibition bill by a vote of 853 to 662. The measure, which would have outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, is declared unconstitutional in November.

The first work of fiction set in Minnesota, a collection of stories about fur traders and Native Americans titled Tales of the Northwest, is published in Boston. The author, William J. Snelling, is the son of Josiah Snelling, for whom Fort Snelling is named.

Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder of the timber dynasty, dies in California. At one time he owned two million acres of forestland in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific Northwest.

The Minnesota state flag is adopted, just in time to appear in a state-sponsored exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago. Designed by Amelia H. Center of Minneapolis, the flag depicts the state seal ringed by a wreath of white lady slippers and surrounded by nineteen stars, representing Minnesota as the nineteenth state (after the original thirteen) to be admitted to the Union. The flag would be modified on March 18, 1957, when the white flowers were replaced with pink-and-white lady slippers.