Lake City's Ralph Samuelson, the "father of water-skiing," dies. In 1922 Samuelson had successfully tested water skis on Lake Pepin, having fashioned the skis by boiling and curving the tips of boards purchased at a local lumberyard.

Jacob A. O. Preus is born in Wisconsin. Founder of the Lutheran Brotherhood fraternal society, he would serve as state governor from 1921 to 1925. He died on May 24, 1961.

Reacting to protests in New Ulm over the use of draftees in World War I, the Commission of Public Safety, under orders from Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist, suspends Mayor Louis A. Fritsche from office. Other city officials and the president of Martin Luther College are also removed from their positions. These actions effectively end the protests, although Fritsche was later reelected.

Colonel Henry Leavenworth and the Fifth Infantry arrive in Mendota to build a fort at the confluence the Dakota call Bdote, where the Mnisota Wakpa (St. Peters/Minnesota River) intersects the Wakpa Tanka (Mississippi River). The following August, Colonel Josiah Snelling takes command of the fort, which is known as Fort St.

Coya Knutson is born in Edmore, North Dakota. In 1954 she became the first woman member of Congress from Minnesota, and she was respected nationwide for her stance on agriculture issues and her championing of family farmers. In 1958, however, members of her own party conspired with her husband Andy Knutson to keep her from winning a third congressional term. Known as the "Coya Come Home" episode, the scandal is what most people remember about Knutson, rather than her political record as a congresswoman.

Duluth's streetcars operate for one final day before being replaced by trolley buses.

Major Stephen H. Long leaves Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling) to explore areas of present-day Minnesota then unknown to the United States. Giacomo C. Beltrami joins Long as he travels up the Minnesota River and then down the Red River to Lake Winnipeg.

Mule cars begin carrying passengers on Superior Street in Duluth.

Bavarian immigrant Anthony Yoerg opens Minnesota's first brewery, located in St. Paul below what is now the River Center parking ramp.

The Foshay Tower is dedicated in Minneapolis. Hiring John Sousa to write and perform a march for the occasion, Wilbur Foshay throws a splendid grand-opening party, a final display of extravagance before the 1929 stock market crash and subsequent economic depression that ruins him.