The state government allocates $5,000 to open the Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children in St. Paul. Named for Dr. Arthur J. Gillette, it is the first state-funded hospital of its kind in the nation.

Seth Eastman becomes commander of Fort Snelling for a third time, holding the post until May 14.

The first baseball game is played at Metropolitan Stadium. The Wichita Braves beat the Minneapolis Millers, 5-3.

A race to break the world record for the longest distance traveled in a hot air balloon ends in Rochester as the winner, W. T. Van Orman, lands the Goodyear III just under the world record distance (1,179.9 miles). The race had begun in San Antonio, Texas, and the three top finishers would soon represent the United States at the international competition in Brussels, Belgium.

Father Lucien Galtier arrives in St. Peters (Mendota) to organize a Catholic church. He soon builds a chapel down the river at the settlement that becomes known as St. Paul.

Edward J. Thye is born near Frederick, South Dakota. Thye succeeded Harold E. Stassen to become the twenty-sixth governor of the state and, notably, the first farmer to hold the office. During his term, he reduce the state debt, increased old-age assistance, expanded state institutions, established a human rights commission, and approved a health-care plan for state employees. As a Republican senator from 1947 to 1958, he was one of seven to sign Margaret Chase Smith's "declaration of conscience" against Joseph McCarthy.

Vietnam War protestors stage a demonstration at Honeywell, Inc., which at the time manufactured fragmentation bombs.

KSTP-TV makes the first commercial television broadcast in Minnesota, showing the Minneapolis Millers' baseball game from Nicollet Park for the approximately 2,500 owners of television sets in the Twin Cities. Station owner Stanley E. Hubbard had experimented with television since the 1930s.

James M. Goodhue publishes the first issue of the Minnesota Pioneer, the territory's first newspaper.

Frank McManus, charged with molesting a four-year-old girl, is lynched by a mob at Central High School in Minneapolis.

Congress passes a law that extends fur-trading licenses to US citizens only. Soon after, John J. Astor's American Fur Company pushes out its British rivals, the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies.

The first issue of the St. Paul Daily Dispatch is published. This newspaper appeared in various editions until 1984, when it merged with the St. Paul Pioneer Press.