Sakpedan (Little Six) and Wakan Ozanzan (Medicine Bottle), leaders in the US-Dakota War of 1862, are executed at Fort Snelling. In December of 1863 they had been captured in Canada by Major Edwin A. C. Hatch, who had no authority to retain them, and returned to the United States for trial.

Suffrage is extended to women in elections pertaining to schools. Women did not earn the right to vote in every election until 1919. (See August 26 entry.)

The military commission headed by Henry H. Sibley completes its trial of Dakota warriors accused of participating in the US–Dakota War earlier that year. Of the 392 prisoners, 307 were sentenced to death and sixteen to prison. President Abraham Lincoln later commuted all but thirty-eight of the death sentences.

Choua Lee is elected to the St. Paul City School Board, the first Hmong person elected to a public position in the United States. After serving one term she declined reelection.

As hundreds gather in Mankato to commemorate the Dakota who were executed there, eagles gather in the sky above them. Many interpret this as a sign of healing between the Dakota nation and the United States.

The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Emil Oberhoffer, presents its first concert. The orchestra replicated the concert in 1927, with Henri Verbrugghen conducting, and in 1993, as the Minnesota Orchestra, directed by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.

Through a ballot initiative led by Progressive Minnesota, voters limit the amount of money city officials can spend on professional sports facilities. This spending cap defeats a proposal for a new taxpayer-funded stadium for the Minnesota Twins.

President Bill Clinton visits Duluth to stump for DFL candidates.

Curtis Warnke, publisher of the Wood Lake News from 1966 to 1994 and the youngest person elected to the Minnesota Legislature (in 1956), passes away from cancer at age seventy-four.

The Minnesota Historical Society accepts a grant from the Weyerhaeuser family to establish the Forest Products History Foundation. Initially located in St. Paul, the foundation evolves into the international organization known as the Forest History Society. Now located in Durham, North Carolina, the society's mission remains the same: to preserve and interpret the documents of forest and conservation history.