Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren, who later starred in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, is born in New Ulm.

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.

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."

A six-day bicycle race begins at the Washington Avenue Rink in Minneapolis, with some of the best-known professional male bicyclists in the country competing for the prizes of a medal (sponsored by the Minneapolis Tribune and "emblematic of the long distance championship of America") and an "elegant suit of clothes, which will be presented by Oscar the Tailor." Held within the rink, the race is also an endurance test for each participant, who pedals his high wheel bicycle, with a big front wheel and a small rear wheel, around the track for the "largest score" of miles covered.

The states of Minnesota and North Dakota agree that Minnesotans who work in North Dakota and North Dakotans who work in Minnesota will not be required to pay income tax in both states.

Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures in Winona at the courthouse. Sponsored by local library associations, Emerson's tour of the Midwest also includes stops in Faribault, St. Paul, and Minneapolis.

Catholic bishop John Ireland dedicates the organ in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Faribault.

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

Farmers in Clarks Grove, Freeborn County, form a dairy cooperative. This co-op is not the state's first, but its success would inspire other communities to use Clarks Grove's organizational system and its bylaws, which were written in Danish, as a model.

Kentucky Congressman James Proctor Knott delivers the speech "The Glories of Duluth" in Congress, mocking the city in an effort to defeat a bill granting land to the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. Duluth's citizens appreciate the free publicity, however, and the town of Proctor is named for him.