Ada Louise Comstock is born in Moorhead. She became the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and then, beginning in 1912, served as dean of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Although she in effect ran the school from 1917 to 1918, she was not given the title of "acting president" because she was a woman. She became the first president of the American Association of University Women in 1921 and served as president of Radcliffe College from 1923 to 1943.

The dwellings in Swede Hollow, a St. Paul immigrant neighborhood, are burned after the city health department declares them contaminated.

St. Paul native Paul Molitor announces his retirement from baseball, having spent his final three seasons with the Minnesota Twins. His career hits numbered over 3,000, most of them from his years with the Milwaukee Brewers.

The newly finished Foshay Tower, already an icon of architecture in Minnesota, is strung with lights and lit up like a Christmas tree. It was Minneapolis's tallest building for nearly fifty years,

Demolition begins on Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, the former home of the North Stars professional hockey team and a venue for entertainment events. The first bombing attempt, with a detonator button pressed by Michael Franson, is largely unsuccessful, with much of the building still standing ten minutes after the scheduled implosion. Eventually, the structure is brought down with bulldozers and other heavy equipment.

A lyceum is organized in St. Paul. Lyceums were cultural centers that sponsored lectures, classes, and other activities.

The first issue of the Northfield Independent appears. The newspaper's editor declares that "It comes in its own independent way, without first having asked leave to be, but intends to justify its being by filling a vacant journalistic place in this city and surrounding country...It will labor that the homes it is permitted to enter may be brighter and purer for its coming, their burdens lightened, if possible, their industries enobled [sic]."

In a milestone in the history of health and medicine in Minnesota, Mary Lund is the first woman to receive a Jarvik-7 artificial heart, in Minneapolis. The device keeps her alive for about a month, until she receives a real heart via transplant.

Maria Louise Sanford is born in Saybrook, Connecticut. An extraordinary and popular teacher, Sanford was be appointed to the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota in 1880. After her retirement in 1909, she remained active, speaking on educational and patriotic topics. She died in 1920. A statue of her, sculpted by Evelyn Raymond, represents the state in Statuary Hall in Washington, DC.

West St. Paul sociology teacher Glen Holmquist, accused of slapping a student at a high school dance, is cleared of an assault charge by a municipal court. Holmquist's attorney says that his client's action was justified as an attempt to maintain order, and that there should be more discipline "instead of the wishy-washy policy parents are advocating today."

Theater Mu, Minnesota's first professional Asian American theater company, presents its first full-length production. The play, called Mask Dance, details the experiences of Korean adoptees in Minnesota.