A statue is dedicated in the Ramsey County Courthouse. Sculpted by Swedish artist Carl Milles and later named Vision of Peace, the sixty-ton, thirty-six-foot-tall revolving onyx artwork cost $75,000.

St. Paul's first automobile fatality occurs when a child is struck on Selby Avenue between Dale and St. Albans Streets.

Minneapolis celebrates John H. Stevens Day. Stevens had built a house on the west side of the Mississippi River in 1849, and on this day schoolchildren pull the house to a location in Minnehaha Park.

The Twin Cities fete General William T. Sherman, who is on a tour of army forts in Minnesota and the Dakotas as commander of the Division of the Mississippi.

A patent is issued to 3M for its transparent cellophane tape, which becomes known as Scotch Tape. Richard G. Drew of St. Paul had developed the product from his earlier invention, a pressure-sensitive masking tape used as a border when repainting cars.

The army withdraws troops from Fort Snelling, having decided that the fort is no longer an essential outpost. Military personnel returned in 1861 to train recruits for the Civil War.

In Eden Prairie, about 150 Ojibwe attack and defeat Shakopee's band of Dakota in the Battle of Shakopee, the final major battle between these tribes in Minnesota.

Dr. Justus Ohage donates Harriet Island, named for schoolteacher Harriet Bishop, to the city of St. Paul.

Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, traveling west to preserve his health, arrives in St. Paul and spends two weeks exploring the flora and fauna of the surrounding area.

After allying with the British during the Revolutionary War, the Dakota leader Wabasha leads 200 Dakota in an attack on Spanish positions at St. Louis.