Minnesota's Jeannette Piccard, who had once piloted hydrogen balloons into the stratosphere, is one of the first women to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church.

The state's first rail shipment of iron ore, from the Soudan Mine, arrives in Two Harbors.

Kidnappers abduct Virginia Piper, wife of investment banker Harry C. Piper, Jr., from her home. The Minneapolis woman is released near Duluth after a ransom of one million dollars is paid, at the time the highest such payment ever made.

Alexander Ramsey, who had served as governor during the Civil War, sets the cornerstone of the third state capitol building. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the capitol is a memorial to Minnesota's Civil War soldiers.

A bicycle built for thirteen―requiring twelve people to peddle and one person to steer―tours St. Paul at the height of the 1890s bicycling craze.

Governor Elmer Benson refuses to give a business license to the Pinkerton Detective Agency, a notorious union-busting group.

Pierre Bottineau, the "Kit Carson of the Northwest," dies. Bottineau, the son of an Ojibwe woman and a French fur trader was born in the Red River valley about 1817. Fluent in Ojibwe, French, Dakota, and English, he worked for Henry H. Sibley in the fur trade beginning in 1837.

Almost eight inches of rain falls in St. Paul in a twenty-four-hour period, causing Lake Como to rise fourteen inches.

Colonel Henry Leavenworth performs a marriage ceremony for Lieutenant Green, one of the officers at Fort St. Anthony (later called Fort Snelling), and a woman named Miss Gooding. Leavenworth has legal authority to perform marriages not as post commander, but as Indian agent for the lands east of the Mississippi, so he and the couple cross the river for the ceremony.

The US Senate votes 96-0 to denounce David Durenberger for "reprehensible" conduct as a senator, making him one of only seven members to be publicly condemned by the Senate in the twentieth century. Durenberger is censured for financial misconduct, including evading the limit on outside earnings.