Twin City Savings and Loan Association is chartered. The $7 million institution assisted thousands of area families in becoming homeowners.

An act of Congress places Fort Ripley Military Reservation in the public domain, making the land available for settler-colonists. The fort, located on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Crow Wing River, had been established in 1849 and was abandoned by the army in 1878.

Ferocious tornado touchdowns strike a dozen communities eastward from Nobles to Wabasha Counties in south-central Minnesota, causing at least one death and numerous injuries, damaging Comfrey and St. Peter, and carrying debris many miles away. Extensive damage in Comfrey forces residents to evacuate from their homes, while the devastation in St. Peter prompts an eyewitness to remark that the city looks "decapitated" and a man in far-off Dakota County catches a falling page from a Le Center school-library book.

St. Paul's new 2,000-watt radio station KSTP inaugurates its illustrious broadcasting career in the Northwest with a seven-hour program that offers a "wide variety of entertainment" throughout the evening and runs until 2:00 A.M. the following morning. With beginnings in local stations WAMD (launched by Stanley E.

Thirty-one people, most of them unsuspecting motorists caught on the roads, die in a blizzard, the second killer snowstorm of the season.

A 350-pound bear is killed in the Hotel Duluth's lounge. The bear had followed truck driver Arvid Peterson and his shipment of fish into the city, and, attracted by the smell of food in the Hotel Duluth's coffee shop, had broken through the window of the lounge. The hotel's night watchman, Albert Nelson, and a unnamed local resident confronted the bear, hitting it with a chair and a hammer. Others called the police, and Sergeant Eli LeBeau shot the bear after trying first to corner it unharmed to return it to the woods. The bear was the third killed in Duluth that year.

Australia defeats Chile as Minneapolis hosts the Davis Cup tennis tournament.

Author Marchette Chute is born in Minneapolis. She published several award-winning children's books, including Shakespeare of London, Geoffrey Chaucer of England, and Ben Jonson of Westminster.

The Barker‒Karpis gang robs South St. Paul's Swift and Company of its $30,000 payroll. Police officer Leo Pavlak dies in the ensuing shoot-out.

Residents of the land that would become St. Paul, nearly all of whom are squatters, send Henry H. Sibley to a land sale at St. Croix Falls where, as their agent, he formally purchases their lots for them.