Clyde Elmer Anderson is born in Brainerd. A champion of social and humanitarian causes, he would serve a record eleven years as the state's lieutenant governor beginning in 1939 and then as the state's twenty-eighth governor from 1951 to 1955. He died in 1998.

In St. Peter, Methodist minister Edward Eggleston marries Lizzie Snider. Eggleston is best remembered for his novel The Hoosier School-Master, set in Indiana, but a less popular novel, The Mystery of Metropolisville, deals with land speculation in Minnesota in the 1850s.

Margaret Culkin (Banning) is born in Buffalo. She lived in Duluth for many years, authoring more than thirty books, including Mesabi and Country Club People.

A treaty signed in Washington, D.C., establishes the White Earth Reservation for the Ojibwe, and the transfer of the Mississippi Ojibwe to the site begins June 14. The leader Bagone-giizhig (Hole-in-the-Day the Younger), wanting no "mixed bloods" on the reservation, tries to block their relocation.

Rebecca Rand, Minnesota's best-known brothel operator, pleads guilty in Ramsey County District Court to three prostitution-related felonies and agrees to turn her buildings over to authorities, as well as pay $200,000 to settle a civil-forfeiture suit. She observes, "I went through so many years without a pimp or anyone taking my money. . . Now the government decided to do that."

The Turnverein, a German organization that sponsored social, educational, and physical events, gives its first dramatic presentation in St. Anthony's Turnverein Hall. Turner clubs provided a strong German presence throughout the country until World War I.

A party of 115 Mennonite men, women, and children from Manitoba pauses briefly in the Twin Cities on the way to Mexico. Among the first of an estimated 20,000 members of this Protestant Christian denomination expected to leave Canada during the next three years, the travelers arrive by rail in passenger coaches accompanied by twenty-two stock cars full of provisions, livestock, farm equipment, and furniture. They plan to live in self-imposed isolation in order to practice their centuries-old religious beliefs and pacifistic way of life.

Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, now the oldest of its kind in the United States, opens in South Minneapolis.

W. E. B. DuBois gives a lecture in St. Paul, sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP.

George Edgar Vincent is born in Rockford, Illinois. A sociologist and a graduate of Yale University, he served from 1911 to 1917 as the third president of the University of Minnesota and an "academic house-cleaner." His reforms during his energetic term brought the institution into the modern era of education in Minnesota.

A guilty verdict is rendered in the impeachment trial of Judge Eugene St. Julien Cox, who had been accused of conducting a trial while drunk. His cause probably was not helped when ten bartenders testified to his ability to hold liquor. Cox was removed from office, but his allies in the Democratic Party later helped reverse the conviction.

Movie producer Mike Todd, who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days (Best Motion Picture, 1956), dies in an airplane crash in New Mexico. Todd was born in Minneapolis in 1909 as Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen.