This Day In Fractured Fairfax:August 26
- August 26, 1954 – The Lee Highway Drive-In Theatre movie theater opens in Merrifield.
- August 26, 1961 – 30-year-old Shirley J. Harris fatally shoots 45-year-old John T. Lambert in Lambert's yard in Herndon to settle an argument.
- August 26, 1975 – 13-year-old Anita Cunningham is sexually assaulted and strangled to death by William M. McGinty in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Alexandria.
- August 26, 1978 – 20-year-old Theodore R. Pope, Jr. drowns in Burke Lake when the rowboat he is riding in capsizes.
- August 26, 2015 – 16-year-old Vladimir Antonio Perez Flores drowns in the Little Hunting Creek near where it flows into the Potomac River in Alexandria.
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