The statue Mississippi, Father of Waters is unveiled in Minneapolis City Hall. An allegorical representation of the Mississippi River, the statue was carved from a single block of marble by Larkin Goldsmith Mead and weighs almost 14,000 pounds.

The council house of the Indian Agency at St. Peters is destroyed by arson. Arsonists strike again on February 24, 1831, burning the agency home. Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro was unpopular with corrupt traders, who disliked his strict enforcement of federal rules.

Bishop Thomas L. Grace dedicates the Church of St. Michael in Stillwater, with Father John Ireland presiding. The press of the day acclaims it as the finest church in the state.

FBI and INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) agents arrest Zacarias Moussaoui in Minneapolis for an immigration violation. They find weapons and Boeing flight manuals in his possession, and in an ensuing trial (held after the terrorist attacks on September 11), Moussaoui admits to conspiring with al-Quaeda. The extent of his involvement in planning the September 11 attacks in particular is disputed.

Author Marchette Chute is born in Minneapolis. She published several award-winning children's books, including Shakespeare of London, Geoffrey Chaucer of England, and Ben Jonson of Westminster.

A 350-pound bear is killed in the Hotel Duluth's lounge. The bear had followed truck driver Arvid Peterson and his shipment of fish into the city, and, attracted by the smell of food in the Hotel Duluth's coffee shop, had broken through the window of the lounge. The hotel's night watchman, Albert Nelson, and a unnamed local resident confronted the bear, hitting it with a chair and a hammer. Others called the police, and Sergeant Eli LeBeau shot the bear after trying first to corner it unharmed to return it to the woods. The bear was the third killed in Duluth that year.

Flash flooding kills seven and causes $67 million in damages in Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties. People are evacuated from Rushford, Stockton, Houston, Elba, Minnesota City, and portions of Winona.

The Canadian government negotiates with Canadian First Nations on US territory when the lieutenant governor of Manitoba meets with 1,000 Indigenous people at Harrison's Creek in the Northwest Angle.

President Calvin Coolidge visits Virginia, Minnesota, and tours the iron mines.

The Reverend William T. Boutwell leaves La Pointe, Wisconsin, to begin his mission to the Pillager Ojibwe at Leech Lake.

A tornado sweeps through Dodge County, killing five, and then lands in Rochester, killing thirty-one. Mother Alfred Moes and the Sisters of St. Francis convert their school into an emergency hospital, with Dr. William Mayo supervising. Realizing the need for a permanent hospital in the city, Moes establishes St. Mary's Hospital on October 1, 1889. This facility would evolve into the Mayo Clinic.

The Beatles perform at Metropolitan Stadium to an estimated crowd of 4,000 teenagers, mostly young women, turning the event into what one writer described as "Shrieksville, USA." With the continued popularity of Beatles's recordings long after their breakup in 1970, the irony of early panning is shown in sharp relief by a Pioneer Press comment on the performance: "The Twin Cities was visited Saturday by some strange citizens from another world.