The Dakota, having sided with the British during the War of 1812, agree to end hostilities with the United States.

A second post office is established in the region that later Minnesota: "Lake St. Croix, Wisconsin Territory," which today is Point Douglas.

Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison each hit a grand slam in the same inning of a baseball game, leading the Minnesota Twins to a win over Cleveland.

St. Paul's Lexington Park is the site of an international balloon race, sponsored by the Northwest Aero Club. Weather conditions are good, but the showing is poor: the winner is aloft for sixteen hours and forty minutes and travels only seventy-five miles.

Cree and Ojibwe leaders in the Red River valley make a treaty with Lord Thomas Douglas Selkirk, who hopes to re-establish his colony of Scottish immigrants.

Jesse Ventura is born in Minneapolis. His given name is James Janos, but he would adopt the Ventura moniker at the start of his professional wrestling career. Running as an anti-establishment candidate with the Reform Party, Ventura's defeat of St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman (Republican) and State Attorney General Hubert "Skip" Humphrey III (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) in the 1998 gubernatorial race was national news.

A tornado kills six in New Ulm. It also blows through Palmyra, Wellington, and Cairo in Renville County, killing eleven more.

The Twin Cities' first streetcar, a horse-drawn affair, begins operation.

The celebrated Norwegian violinist Ole Bull performs in the capitol building in St. Paul, a heady concert for a territorial capital.

William K. Finney is sworn in as St. Paul's chief of police. He is the first African American to hold the position.