A team led by Will Steger of Ely completes the 3,800-mile International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, the first dog-sled traverse of the continent by its widest distance.

A party of 115 Mennonite men, women, and children from Manitoba pauses briefly in the Twin Cities on the way to Mexico. Among the first of an estimated 20,000 members of this Protestant Christian denomination expected to leave Canada during the next three years, the travelers arrive by rail in passenger coaches accompanied by twenty-two stock cars full of provisions, livestock, farm equipment, and furniture. They plan to live in self-imposed isolation in order to practice their centuries-old religious beliefs and pacifistic way of life.

St. Louis County, the state's largest (6,611 square miles), is established, named for the St. Louis River.

Fillmore County, honoring President Millard Fillmore, is created.

Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, now the oldest of its kind in the United States, opens in South Minneapolis.

Melrose native Captain James Gallagher of the US Air Force completes the first nonstop flight around the world. With a crew of thirteen he flew Lucky Lady II, a B-50 bomber assigned to the 43rd Bomb Group, refueling four times while in the air and completing the 23,452-mile trip in ninety-four hours and one minute.

The city of Anoka is created. Settler colonists had first arrived on the site in 1851 and then platted (surveyed and mapped) it in 1854.

Karl F. Rolvaag is born in Northfield. He served as governor from 1963 to 1967 and died December 20, 1990.

Duluth state representative Willard Munger dies. He had served over forty years in the Minnesota House and was known as an advocate for environmental protection.

Alexander Henry the elder, one of the first Englishmen to visit to present-day Minnesota, travels up the Pigeon River to Partridge Portage.