The Red Lake and Pembina bands of Ojibwe sign the Old Crossing treaty, ceding to the US government three million acres of land in the Red River Valley. Senator Alexander Ramsey and Indian Agent Ashley C. Morrill represent the United States; Moose Dung, Crooked Arm, Little Rock, and Little Shell are among the Ojibwe signers. The treaty is named for a ford in the Red Lake River, near Red Lake Falls.

The MinnesotaCare health program, benefiting uninsured low-income Minnesota residents, goes into effect. MinnesotaCare is financed by state tax dollars, provider taxes, and premiums paid by enrollees.

On his second visit to the region, Frenchman Pierre Charles Le Sueur arrives at the mouth of the Blue Earth River. At this site he builds Fort L'Huillier, named for a chemist in France who had told Le Sueur that the blue clay found at this location on his first trip was rich in copper. Le Sueur travels with two tons of the clay to New Orleans, leaving nineteen men to continue operations. Further testing shows that the clay contains no copper, and when Le Sueur returned to the Blue Earth River the fort had disappeared. In 1907 A.

At La Pointe, Wisconsin, a number of Ojibwe bands sign a treaty transferring Minnesota's "Arrowhead" region to the U.S. government for about $400,000. Signers for the Grand Portage band include Little Englishman and Like a Reindeer; Balsom and Loon's Foot sign for the Fond du Lacs; and Hole-in-the-Day and Berry Hunter sign for the Mississippi River band. Henry C. Gilbert and David B.

Minnesota celebrates George Washington's birthday as a legal holiday for the first time.

Henderson is incorporated. Joseph R. Brown had settled there in 1852 and later named the town for his aunt, Margaret Brown Henderson, and her son, Andrew.

The Minnesota legislature reorganizes the University of Minnesota into a central college of science, literature, and the arts, with various associated colleges. Although the university had been incorporated on February 25, 1851, no classes had been held. In 1869, the board of regents elected William W. Folwell as the institution's first president, and classes began soon afterward.

Charles J. Rinehart, accused of murdering carpenter John B. Bodell, is lynched in Lexington. His case had not yet been brought to trial.

Sister Mary Giovanni Gourhan, founder in 1963 of Guadalupe Area Project alternative school, dies. A native of West St. Paul active in that neighborhood's Chicano community, Gourhan ran an unorthodox school, teaching the basics as well as Mexican history and effective living and meditation techniques.

Citizens of Minneapolis are shocked when the body of the year's ninth murder victim is found. There had been only one murder the previous year.