March 1993
Events that took place in Fairfax County in March, 1993:
- March 5 – Springfield Mall becomes the first shopping mall in Fairfax County to ban smoking in its public areas.[1]
- March 13 – Michael Martin is stabbed to death by James Cowan at the maximum security facility of the Lorton Correctional Complex.
- March 28 – The 36-inch Colonial Pipeline buried near the parking lot of the Reston Hospital Center ruptures, sending a 100-foot geyser of diesel oil spraying into the air in Reston, eventually spilling over 400,000 gallons of the fuel and polluting the nearby Sugarland Run.[2]
References
- ↑ Swisher, Kara, and Bill Miller. "Va.'s Springfield Mall to Prohibit Smoking." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Mar 04 1993. ProQuest. Web. 18 Aug. 2014.
- ↑ "Flashback Monday: Reston, the Superfund Site." Web log post. Restonian. Restonian Amalgamated Web Logs and Extruded Pork Products Worldwide, Ltd., 16 Mar. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2016.
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