At the grand opening of a co-op in Mississippi (Minnesota), customers consume forty-five gallons of Red Star coffee and eighty-five dozen biscuits.

Macalester College opens its St. Paul campus. Originally known as Baldwin School, it had been renamed for Charles Macalester. Macalester owned the Winslow House, a hotel in Minneapolis where classes were first held. Macalester agreed to donate the hotel to the college in 1874.

Englishman George Featherstonhaugh reaches Fort Snelling. He had been hired by the US War Department to explore the geology of the Upper Midwest. He continues up the Minnesota River to Lake Traverse, and in 1847 he published the book A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor.

The First National Bank of St. Paul is organized, the first Minnesota bank chartered under the national banking act of 1863. Derived from a private bank owned by Parker Paine, it would eventually lose its name through a series of mergers, although there is still a First National Bank Building in St. Paul.

T. Eugene Thompson, a lawyer who helped to draft Minnesota's 1963 revised criminal code, begins serving a life sentence in the Minnesota State Prison for hiring a man to kill his wife, Carol.

The Eighth Minnesota Regiment helps defend Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from a Confederate attack, suffering ninety casualties. Murfreesboro had been the scene of the Third Minnesota's surrender two and a half years earlier.

Abolitionist, feminist, and newspaper publisher Jane Grey Swisshelm is born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Minnesota in 1857 and established the St. Cloud Visiter and, later, the St. Cloud Democrat. During the Civil War she moved to Washington, DC, and become a nurse. She died in 1884.

Pioneering journalist Marvel Jackson Cooke dies in New York. Born in Mankato in 1903, Cooke moved to Harlem in 1926 and worked for the NAACP's Crisis magazine, the Amsterdam News, and the People's Voice. In 1950 she joined the staff of the New York Daily Compass and was the first African American woman to work full-time for a major white-owned American newspaper.

Henry M. Rice is born in Waitsfield, Vermont. At twenty-three he became a sutler at Fort Snelling, running a concessionary store that sold sundry items to the soldiers. Rice later entered the political arena, encouraging Congress to define the state's boundaries and serving as one of Minnesota's first two senators. He died in 1894.

Aaron Goodrich, Minnesota Territory's first supreme court justice, is accused of adultery. An effort to impeach him fails, but President Millard Fillmore exercises his executive power to remove Goodrich from office in 1851.