Bagone-giizhig (Hole-in-the-Day the Younger), Eshkibagikoonzh (Flat Mouth), Lawrence Taliaferro, Henry H.

The Western Federation of Miners calls a strike on the Mesabi Iron Range. Two hundred union men had been laid off from Mountain Iron Mine, owned by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of US Steel. Although layoffs on the range were common, at issue was recognition of the union, which was threatened by the discharge of only union workers. Within two months a large number of imported scabs undermine the union's efforts and the strike is broken.

Minneapolis holds its first Aquatennial, a festival celebrating Minnesota's summers.

Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan (which at the time included present-day Minnesota), reaches what he erroneously believes to be the source of the Mississippi River: a lake called Gaa-miskwaawaakokaag (where there are many red cedars) by the Ojibwe. Afterward, settler-colonists began to call it Cass Lake.

James J. Hill arrives in St. Paul to work as a shipping clerk for J. W. Bass and Company. He later made his fortune as a railroad baron and business tycoon.

The Sabathanites Drum Corps, an African American drum corps founded in 1964, participates in the Aquatennial Parade in Minneapolis after boycotting the event for forty-three years. Drum corps members began the boycott in 1967 after police attacked several drum corps members as they marched in the parade.

Father Francis Pierz, a Slovene priest, arrives at his post in Grand Portage. He remains there for a few months and then returns in 1841 to establish a mission on the Pigeon River. His later writings encourage Germans and Slovenes to immigrate to the "earthly paradise of Minnesota."

A mob attacks the Brainerd jail, where two Ojibwe brothers, Te-be-ke-ke-sheck-wabe and Go-go-once, are being held for allegedly murdering a woman. The men are taken to a nearby pine tree and hanged in front of a crowd of 1,000. After the lynching, a rumor spread among Brainerd's residents that angry Ojibwe were planning to attack the town. Sheriff John Gurrell telegraphed Governor Horace Austin for help. Three companies of troops were sent out, arriving on July 25.

Princeton-area farmer O. J. Odegard is the first to utilize the labor of Axis prisoners of war when he requests 100 Italian POWs for farm work due to the acute labor shortage in Mille Lacs County. Odegard is forced to pay the average wage for farm work, $3.00 per prisoner per day, and the prisoners and forty armed guards arrive from Camp Clark, Missouri, on September 5. Provided with kitchen facilities, the prisoners prepare their own food, and, in fact, they are such skilled cooks that their guards prefer their meals over standard army fare.

Pitcher Ila Borders of the Duluth-Superior Dukes is the first woman to win a men's regular season professional baseball game. The Dukes beat the Sioux Falls Canaries 3-1, in Duluth.

In New Ulm, a group of at least 6,000 attends a rally at Turner Park to protest the policy of sending draftees of German descent to fight in World War I.