Dainin Katagiri Roshi is born in Osaka, Japan. A Zen Buddhist abbot and teacher, Roshi moved to Minnesota in December 1972 and founded the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, located in Minneapolis near Bde Maka Ska.

Charlie Boone reaches an agreement with WCCO-AM radio on his impending retirement from full-time announcing. His retirement ends the thirty-year Boone and (Roger) Erickson partnership, one of the station's most popular features.

Minneapolis policeman George Kraemer fatally shoots Peter C. Johnson with a sawed-off shotgun in a dark basement. Johnson had been attempting to crack open a safe he and his "assistant," William Carson, stole during a robbery.

Northwest Airlines agrees to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million, a purchase that forms a single Twin Cities-based carrier and the third-largest airline in the United States.

Seeing battle for the first time and suffering forty-five casualties, the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment plays a key role in the Union victory at Logan's Cross Roads, Kentucky.

Banker Edward G. Bremer is kidnapped at the corner of Goodrich Avenue and Lexington Parkway in St. Paul. On February 7, after his family pays a $200,000 ransom, Bremer is freed in Rochester. Bremer's remarkable memory leads investigators to the kidnappers, the Barker-Karpis gang. Police caught or killed all of the gang's members by 1936.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago rules that Minnesota Ojibwe, including the Mille Lacs Band, retain the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights guaranteed by nineteenth-century treaties with the federal government.

Morton S. Wilkinson is born in New York State. He moved to Stillwater in 1847, became Minnesota's first practicing attorney, and served in Congress as a senator (1859–65) and a representative (1869–71). He died in 1894.

Nathalie "Tippi" Hedren, who later starred in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, is born in New Ulm.

Lucius F. Hubbard is born in Troy, New York. After arriving in Minnesota in 1857, he would establish and edit the newspaper Red Wing Republican and would serve as a general in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War. He would be ninth governor of the state, serving from 1882 to 1887; his second term lasted three years to cover the legislature's change to biennial sessions. During his tenure the Railroad and Warehouse Commission would be established. He died February 5, 1913.