The state celebrates Henry H. Wade Day in honor of the inventor of enriched taconite, a product that has kept the iron range and its ports operating for years.

A bookstore owned by the Communist Party and located on Third Avenue in South Minneapolis is bombed. A mob then loots the store, burning its books in a bonfire on the street.

Minnesota's first pheasant season begins in Hennepin and Carver Counties. The ring-necked pheasant had been introduced to the state from China in 1905, and it would eventually become Minnesota's most important upland game bird.

The Marx Brothers play the Hennepin Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.

Future Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is born in Maine, Minnesota. Briefly a resident of the state, Douglas would move further west while he was an infant as his family sought a climate more accommodating to his nearly crippling polio.

The state constitution is ratified by popular vote. In the accompanying gubernatorial election, Henry H. Sibley beats Alexander Ramsey by a slim margin of 240 votes out of 35,340 cast.

President Grover Cleveland is in St. Paul for the second day of a three-day visit to the state. Former governors Henry H. Sibley, Alexander Ramsey, and William R. Marshall accompany him in his travels around the area.

The Town and Country Club is founded in St. Paul. First located on the shores of Lake Como, in 1891 the club moved to its present location near the Marshall Avenue Bridge. A golf course, originally tomato cans sunk in a pasture, was set up in 1893, and it is now the second-oldest course in the country.

Henry Jackson is born in the state of Virginia. He moved to St. Paul in 1842 and rented a place from Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant. A trader and merchant, he served as the city's first postmaster and its first justice of the peace.

The Minnesota Twins baseball team trades future hall-of-famer Rod Carew to the California Angels in exchange for outfielder Ken Landreaux, right-handed pitcher Paul Hartzell, two rookies (left-handed pitcher Brad Havens and catcher-third baseman Dave Engle), and an estimated $200,000. Carew, who bats left-handed and throws right-handed, remarks, "I love the Minnesota fans and like living here. But it was no longer any fun playing . . .