Future baseball hall-of-famer James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter, pitching for the Oakland Athletics, throws a no-hitter against the Minnesota Twins. The final score is 4-0.

Ice in Duluth's harbor traps thirteen ships, confining 400 individuals aboard.

Governor Adolf O. Eberhart declares Minnesota's first Mother's Day holiday.

Encouraged by Bishop John Ireland and sponsored by John Sweetman, visionary leader of the Irish-American Colonization Company, a group of Irish farmers moves to Currie in Murray County.

Two days after arriving in Faribault with his new locomobile, an expensive two-seat roadster, Dr. R. N. Jackson is involved in an accident, breaking his ribs and collarbone.

The Anthony Wayne is the first steamboat to reach the Falls of St. Anthony, winning a prize of $200.

Eastern Minnesota is organized as part of Indiana Territory by an act of Congress.

Anna Ramsey dies. Admired as Governor Alexander Ramsey's "helpmeet," she led efforts to create homeless shelters and support other charities.

Lake of the Woods County is established.

The freighter Mataafa wrecks near the lighthouse in Duluth harbor during a storm that sank eighteen ships on the Great Lakes in a twenty-four-hour period. The crew suffers terribly from the cold winds of the storm, and nine freeze to death. The Mataafa is rebuilt and continues to sail until 1966.