* 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes, and destroys 2, 200 homes around San Diego.

The winds are also associated with some of the area's largest and deadliest wildfires, including the state's largest fire on record, the Cedar Fire, as well as the Laguna Fire, Old Fire, Esperanza Fire, Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 and the Witch Fire.

On October 27, 2003, the Monday Night Football game between the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins was moved to Sun Devil Stadium because the Cedar Fire in the San Diego area forced the teams to vacate Qualcomm Stadium, which was being used as an evacuation site.

A terrible wildfire, which has come to be known as the Baudette Fire of 1910, broke out in October of that year, burning and destroying the towns of Spooner, Baudette, Graceton, Pitt, Williams, and Cedar Spur.

Davis was Governor during the southern California fires of 2003, more commonly known as the Cedar Fire.

Crest was twice devastated by wildfires: first by the Laguna Fire in 1970 then again by the Cedar Fire in 2003.

Harbison Canyon was twice devastated by wildfires, first by the Laguna Fire in 1970 then again by the Cedar Fire on October 26, 2003, the worst firestorm in California history.

The Cedar Fire began in Ramona approximately east of the San Diego Country Estates area, on 25 October 2003.

The Cedar Fire is the largest fire in California history.

Several fires including the Witch Fire and Cedar Fire have begun near the Estates.

On October 23, 2003, the Cedar Fire began approximately 3 miles east of the Estates in Cleveland National Forest.

The Cedar Fire is the largest fire in Southern California history and was part of the 2003 Firestorm.

The Witch Creek fire was initially feared to be larger than the Cedar Fire but instead resulted in becoming the second largest fire in California history.

* Cedar Knolls Fire District # 3 is located at the corner of Ridgedale and Mountain Avenues.

* Cedar Knolls Fire Dept.

Cedar Groves Fire Department is Volunteer based, with paid EMT's on the Ambulance service.

In the summer of 1913, while he was a lifeguard on the beach at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Rockne and his college teammate and roommate Gus Dorais worked on passing techniques.

He was assassinated soon afterwards ( see below ), triggering the Cedar Revolution.

Xerox PARC developed Cedar, which was based on Mesa, with a number of additions including garbage collection, better string support, called Ropes, and a native compiler for Sun SPARC workstations.

Within Xerox, Mesa was eventually superseded by the Cedar programming language.

* Mesa was the precursor to the programming language Cedar.

An Early Dynastic II king ( Ensi ) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh ( c. 2, 600 BCE ), was commended for military exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.

The favoured timber for pencils was Red Cedar as it was aromatic and did not splinter when sharpened.

It was soon discovered that Incense cedar, when dyed and perfumed to resemble Red Cedar, was a suitable alternative and most pencils today are made from this timber which is grown in managed forests.

In 1973 he was appointed an Officer of the Lebanese National Order of the Cedar.

He boiled the needles of the arbor vitae tree ( Eastern White Cedar ) to make a tea that was later shown to contain 50 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams.

His call sign was Kedr ( Cedar, ).

This activity was northwest of Mono Basin and included the formation of Aurora Crater, Beauty Peak, Cedar Hill ( later an island in the highest stands of Mono Lake ), and Mount Hicks.

In March 2004, during a visit to Lebanon, Bashir was appointed a Grand Officer of the National Order of the Cedar by General Emile Lahoud, President of the Republic of Lebanon.

On 19 April 2012, Bashir was presented with the insignia of a Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar by the President of Lebanon, General Michel Suleiman, at Government House, Sydney, during his state visit to Australia.

It was originally named Little Salt Lake Valley, and renamed for the iron mines west of Cedar City.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

By 1885, when Fort Myers was incorporated, it was the second largest city only to Tampa on Florida ’ s west coast south of Cedar Key, even larger than Clearwater and Sarasota, also growing cities at the time.

In 1911 parts of Cedar Fork Township of Wake County was transferred to Durham County and became Carr Township.

The Cedar County Sheriff's House and Jail is believed to be the last jail and residence combination still in use when it closed in 2001.

Within the last decade, the area has seen a shift in development as larger homes have been constructed in Cedar Grove, the Highlands at Tiger Mountain and Mirrormont.

After Route 44 is the last interchange, with Cedar Swamp Road, before US 130 merges into I-295 for a concurrency.

Many Cedar Waxwings ' wax spots in the eastern United States have taken on an unusual orange hue in the last 35 years, a phenomenon that has been attributed to Lonicera morrowii.

* Cedar Girls ' Secondary School ( IP, last two years at Victoria Junior College ))

It then continues northwest for another 13 km ( 8 mi ) through signalized junctions at Oyster Sto-Lo Road, Cedar Road, Timberlands Road, and Spitfire Way, the last of which provides access to Nanaimo Airport.

* May 30-The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway runs its last passenger trains.

As light rail vehicles are removed from service following the rush hour peak, the Cedar – Riverside station is the last stop for the trains, and all passengers must disembark at that point.

On September 30, 2008, the United States Surface Transportation Board announced its approval of Canadian Pacific's proposed purchase of the DM & E, IC & E and Cedar American Rail Holdings, with the official last day of operations for DM & E and IC & E scheduled for October 30, 2008.

Seattle first decided to invest in public power generation in 1902, initially handling this as part of the water department ; the resulting Cedar Falls hydroelectric facility ( 1905 ) is now the oldest continually operating, publicly owned hydroelectric plant in the U. S. City Light became a separate city agency in 1910, and, in 1951, bought out the last of their privately owned competitors.

The last section from Broadway to Cedar Street was completed.

Because the Lake Menomin dam is the last one on the Red Cedar River before the Mississippi, it is legal to fish that part of the river out of season.

:" Beginning on the Mississippi River at a point where the Sac and Fox northern boundary line, as established by the second article of the treaty of Prairie du Chien, July, 1830, strikes said river ; thence up said boundary line to a point 50 miles km from the Mississippi measured on said line ; thence in a right line to the nearest point on the Cedar River, of Iowa, 40 miles km from the Mississippi ; thence in a right line to a point in the northern boundary of the State of Missouri, 50 miles km measured on said boundary from the Mississippi River ; thence by the last mentioned boundary to the Mississippi River, and by the western shore of said river to the place of beginning.