1680    The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1775    American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1775    Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1775    At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1776    Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.

1846    The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1997    19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.