The northern boundary of the United States is set at the forty-ninth parallel of latitude, extending from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

A statue of Governor John A. Johnson, sculpted by Andrew O'Connor, is unveiled in St. Paul on the grounds of the Minnesota capitol.

Otto Wonnigheit and Charles Irmisch are hanged for murder in the Federal Courts Building (now the Landmark Center) in St. Paul.

The Agriculture School of the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus, which was known as University Farm, opens with forty-seven students and W. W. Pendergast as principal.

At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Duluth, an organizational meeting is held to establish a new hospital in the city. Named for today's feast of St. Luke, the hospital is set up in an old blacksmith's shop, and the first patient is admitted on November 18.

Land in central Minnesota is set aside for the Mamaceqtaw (Menominee). The tribe decides not to move from their holdings in Wisconsin and cedes the proposed reservation to the state on May 5, 1854.

Rochester declares an air pollution alert and earns the dubious distinction of having the highest carbon monoxide levels recorded in the state. This and other alerts in the state during the early 1970s were caused by stagnant weather systems that did not blow away industrial and automobile emissions.

The Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House (later renamed the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center), named for the eighteenth-century poet, opens in north Minneapolis. The oldest African American agency in the Twin Cities, the center first serves as a place where young people meet for recreation and skill development and later provides a home-away-from-home for civic leaders, educators, entertainers, and students.

William R. Marshall is born near Columbia, Missouri. As an adult he moved to Minnesota, owned a hardware store in St. Paul, founded the St. Paul Press in 1861, and fought with the Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. As the fifth governor of the state, he advocated extending the right to vote to African American men. That law was passed in 1868, two years before the fifteenth amendment extended suffrage nationwide. He died on January 8, 1896.

David Brom is sentenced to fifty-two years in prison for murdering his Olmsted County family with an ax. Judge Ancy Morse orders the eighteen-year-old Brom to serve three consecutive life sentences to ensure that he is never released.