Jack Morris pitches a ten-inning shutout as the Minnesota Twins beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game of an exciting World Series.

The Morris Fruit Company building in Minneapolis collapses, killing two employees. On November 1, a jury of experts learns that the building had shown signs of rotting and overloading on its third floor and had not been rebuilt after a 1933 fire. Finding no criminal negligence, however, the jury simply calls for stricter enforcement of the building code.

Christopher C. Andrews is born in New Hampshire. An advocate of the application of European forestry principles to American conditions and a persistent sponsor of the preservation of forests for posterity, he served as the state's first chief fire warden and as the commissioner of forestry from 1905 to 1911.

Calvin Griffith decides to move his Washington Senators to Minnesota, where the baseball team is renamed the Minnesota Twins.

Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench, Mayo Clinic doctors, and Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss doctor, are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their development of cortisone.

In the seventh game of the World Series, the Minnesota Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals with a score of 4-2, winning the series 4-3.

Novelist Anne Tyler is born in Minneapolis. She published many popular books, including The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons, for which she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989.

With a parade and elaborate ceremonies, a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus is dedicated on the State Capitol grounds. Sculpted by St. Paul native Carlo Brioschi, the statue was sponsored by the Minnesota State Federation of Italian American Clubs.

The US Department of Justice files a pollution suit against Reserve Mining Company, which operated a taconite plant on Lake Superior and dumped tailings contaminated with asbestos-like fibers into the lake. Lasting five years, the proceedings would be the nation's longest and most expensive environmental legal battle to that date.

Sister Carmela Hanggi, principal of Cathedral School in St. Paul and a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, founds the School Safety Patrol in Minnesota, which becomes an international model for parochial and public institutions.