Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor of the airships that would be used to bomb London in World War I, enjoys a more conventional balloon ascension in St. Paul.

The biggest fire in Minneapolis history burns twenty-three square blocks of the city and more than 150 buildings, leaving 1,500 people without shelter.

Minnesota Territory's first court session is held in Stillwater. Reportedly, only one man on the jury wore boots. All the rest wore moccasins.

International Business Machines (IBM) introduces the first personal computer, which staff at the company's plant in Rochester had helped design.

Harmon Killebrew is the first player on the Minnesota Twins inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He blasted 573 home runs over the course of his career.

The first WeFest takes place in Detroit Lakes, featuring the band Alabama and the performers Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others. The biggest country music and camping festival in the nation, it attracts tens of thousands of country music enthusiasts annually.

A tractor truck made by the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company receives nationwide attention during army battle maneuvers at Camp Ripley. Soldiers would call it the "jeep."

The last edition of the Minneapolis Star is printed, ending sixty-two years of publication. The following day marks the first publication of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, which later became the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

For the fourth and final time, Seth Eastman takes command of Fort Snelling.

Six hundred women attend a Women's Safe Driver Automobile School at the YWCA, sponsored by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the St. Paul Association Safety Division, and the Dunwoody Institute.