The University of Minnesota Gophers men's ice hockey team wins the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship tournament. It beats the University of Maine 4-3 in overtime to win its first national title since 1979.

Nellie Stone Johnson dies in Minneapolis at the age of ninety-six. Johnson was an African American civil rights activist and union leader who was influential in Minnesota politics from the 1930s through the twentieth century.

The UMD Bulldogs Women's Ice Hockey team win their second consecutive national championship.

The University of Minnesota Gophers wrestling team win their second consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Championship.

Governor Jesse Ventura signs a law designating the image known as "Grace" the official state photograph. The photograph was taken by Swedish American photographer Eric Enstrom in 1918. It depicts an elderly man bowing his head and giving thanks.

The Minnesota State Legislature passes a law requiring that diesel fuel sold in Minnesota must contain at least 2 percent bio-diesel from animal or vegetable fats. The law also projects future increases in this percentage, up to 20 percent.

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community purchases the Lone Pine Golf Course, allowing it to host the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association's annual golf tournament and the SMSC tournament that year. The course would later be renamed The Meadows at Mystic Lake.

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.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Medtronic's CareLink Network, the first system that allows doctors to remotely monitor implanted medical devices via the internet.

On October 30, 1991, no one in Minnesota foresaw a blizzard. Local meteorologists predicted a few inches of snow. The snow began to fall in the early to mid-afternoon of October 31—Halloween Day— and fell steadily for almost three days. When it stopped, snow measured over thirty inches in the eastern part of Minnesota, from Duluth to Dodge Center, breaking a record set in 1882.