St. Paul workers begin the slow process of numbering the city's buildings. They begin with 20 Robert Street, which was home to Cathcart, Kern & Co.'s Crystal Palace, a dry-goods store.

Spain transfers Louisiana Territory, part of which would eventually become western Minnesota, to France. France sold the territory to the United States three years later.

A blizzard marks the beginning of the "winter of the deep snow" and kills at least six individuals in Pipestone and Cottonwood Counties. During that winter, the Pipestone County Star is printed on brown wrapping paper for eight weeks while the snow blocks supply trains.

Concordia College opens in Moorhead with a class of twelve students. At first a high school, Concordia would begin to offer college-level courses in 1907.

Future Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is born in Maine, Minnesota. Briefly a resident of the state, Douglas would move further west while he was an infant as his family sought a climate more accommodating to his nearly crippling polio.

Minnesota's first pheasant season begins in Hennepin and Carver Counties. The ring-necked pheasant had been introduced to the state from China in 1905, and it would eventually become Minnesota's most important upland game bird.

The state celebrates Henry H. Wade Day in honor of the inventor of enriched taconite, a product that has kept the iron range and its ports operating for years.

William R. Marshall is born near Columbia, Missouri. As an adult he moved to Minnesota, owned a hardware store in St. Paul, founded the St. Paul Press in 1861, and fought with the Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. As the fifth governor of the state, he advocated extending the right to vote to African American men. That law was passed in 1868, two years before the fifteenth amendment extended suffrage nationwide. He died on January 8, 1896.

Rochester declares an air pollution alert and earns the dubious distinction of having the highest carbon monoxide levels recorded in the state. This and other alerts in the state during the early 1970s were caused by stagnant weather systems that did not blow away industrial and automobile emissions.

Representatives from the Community Peace Garden in Minneapolis attend a public hearing to discuss the city’s light rail construction plans, which threaten to displace their garden. The 30,000-acre plot, which is mainly tended to by Korean immigrants, would eventually be forced to move a few blocks away from its original location.

At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Duluth, an organizational meeting is held to establish a new hospital in the city. Named for today's feast of St. Luke, the hospital is set up in an old blacksmith's shop, and the first patient is admitted on November 18.