Suffering from dyspepsia, heart disease, and depression, Justus C. Ramsey, younger brother of statesman Alexander Ramsey, commits suicide in St. Paul. After winning $10,000 in a lottery, Justus had arrived in Minnesota from Pennsylvania in 1849, invested heavily in real estate, and served in the territorial legislature. In early August 1862 he was one of a party that attempted to deliver an annuity payment in gold from the US government to the Dakota.

St. Paul's Mansion House hotel burns to the ground after a fire starts in the kitchen and there is a delay in getting enough hose for a steam fire engine."The circumstances . . . strongly point to incendiarism as the cause," remarks the St. Paul Pioneer, noting that a fire set in the same place nearly destroyed the hotel in fall 1865.

Clay School serves the first "penny luncheon" in Minneapolis, "a financial and dietetic experiment" by the Woman's Club of Minneapolis and the Parents and Teachers' Association. For two cents each, students purchase a meal of creamed rice (with raisins) and bread and cocoa, a "more wholesome . . . repast than many of the youngsters have been buying . . . in confectionery stores in the neighborhood." If the luncheons prove successful, the Minneapolis Journal notes, "the school board will be asked to authorize their establishment in a number of other public schools."

Lucius F. Hubbard is born in Troy, New York. After arriving in Minnesota in 1857, he would establish and edit the newspaper Red Wing Republican and would serve as a general in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War. He would be ninth governor of the state, serving from 1882 to 1887; his second term lasted three years to cover the legislature's change to biennial sessions. During his tenure the Railroad and Warehouse Commission would be established. He died February 5, 1913.

Minneapolis policeman George Kraemer fatally shoots Peter C. Johnson with a sawed-off shotgun in a dark basement. Johnson had been attempting to crack open a safe he and his "assistant," William Carson, stole during a robbery.

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) announces the invention of a machine for the mass recording of magnetic audio tape.

Grand Portage National Monument, established by Congress in 1958 and located within the Grand Portage Indian Reservation, is dedicated when Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton accepts the site from the Grand Portage Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. The eight-and-a-half-mile Gichi Onigamiing (the Great Carrying Place) near the mouth of the Pigeon River was a major gateway into the interior of North America for exploration, the fur trade, and commerce.

As a group of Ojibwe assembles for a Ghost Dance, a rumor of an uprising at Lake of the Woods spreads, and many white settler-colonists flee the Roseau Valley. Upon investigation, Sheriff Oscar Younggren discovers that the gathering is peaceful. Fearing that the colonists might take revenge upon their return, a few Ojibwe feed and water their animals in their absence.

A fire destroys much of the business section of Morristown, Rice County, burning twenty buildings, including a bank, post office, and hotel.

In a special election, Laos-born St. Paul lawyer Mee Moua is elected to the Minnesota State Senate. She is the first Asian woman elected to the Minnesota Legislature and the first Hmong American elected to any state legislature.

A sewing club called the St. Paul Circle of Industry is formed to raise money for a new school building in St. Paul. The building was completed in August 1849.

Maxene Andrews is born in Minneapolis. With her sisters LaVerne (born July 6, 1911) and Patty (born February 26, 1918), she would form the Andrews Sisters singing group, known as "America's wartime sweethearts" and remembered for their 1941 hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."