The Reverend Edward D. Neill officiates at the dedication of the first House of Hope Presbyterian Church building, a chapel that stood on Walnut Street between Oak and Pleasant Streets in St. Paul. The congregation moved in 1869 to a church at Fifth and Exchange Streets, and then in 1914 to Summit Avenue.

Television's original Betty Crocker, Adelaide Hawley Cumming, dies in Seattle. Cumming starred in the Betty Crocker Show beginning in 1949 and remained General Mills' advertising icon until 1964, after which she taught English as a second language in Seattle.

The Nushka Toboggan Club is formed. To promote the St. Paul Winter Carnival, the club sponsors toboggan slides on Crocus Hill, snowshoe hikes to Merriam Park, and parties on Washington's birthday. Nushka means "look!" in Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language.

Clearwater County is established, named for Clearwater Lake and River.

The American House burns in St. Paul. A landmark in early photographs and paintings of the area, the hotel stood at Third and Exchange Streets.

Alexis Bailly is born in St. Joseph, Canada. He preceded Henry H. Sibley as an agent for the American Fur Company in Mendota, one of the most influential forces in the fur trade in Minnesota. Bailly was also one of the first settler-colonists to grow wheat in Minnesota and a member of the territorial legislature. He died in 1861.

Demolition begins on Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, the former home of the North Stars professional hockey team and a venue for entertainment events. The first bombing attempt, with a detonator button pressed by Michael Franson, is largely unsuccessful, with much of the building still standing ten minutes after the scheduled implosion. Eventually, the structure is brought down with bulldozers and other heavy equipment.

Ada Louise Comstock is born in Moorhead. She became the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and then, beginning in 1912, served as dean of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Although she in effect ran the school from 1917 to 1918, she was not given the title of "acting president" because she was a woman. She became the first president of the American Association of University Women in 1921 and served as president of Radcliffe College from 1923 to 1943.

In a fight over the possession of Traverse County records, citizens of Browns Valley (the old county seat) brawl in the streets of their town with farmers from Wheaton (the new seat) who arrive early in the morning to claim the records. The outnumbered "invaders" flee with only one load, which is later returned to Browns Valley. All the records are eventually moved to Wheaton without further battle.

Outside of Pearl Harbor, the destroyer Ward, its crew primarily reservists from St. Paul, attacks and sinks a Japanese midget submarine, the first shots fired on the date of infamy. Inside the harbor, Minneapolis-born Captain Franklin van Valkenburgh is killed on the bridge of his ship, the USS Arizona. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor by Congress.